Honoré Daumier
Leaving the Theater
ca. 1865
Museum purchase through the Earle W. Grant Acquisition Fund
1972:186
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Provenance
(With Ambroise Vollard, Paris, ca. 1865 - at least 1901). Hugo Nathan, Frankfurt, Germany, by 1913 - 1922[1]; Martha
(Dreyfus) Nathan by descent, Frankfurt, Germany, 1922 - ca. 1938[2]; on deposit to Kunstmuseum Basel, ca. 1938;
(with Wildenstein and Company, 1938 - ca. 1952), (with Thannhauser Gallery, 1938 - ca. 1952), (possibly with Jacob
Heimann 1938 - ca. 1952)[3]; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Engelhard, Far Hills, New Jersey, ca. 1952 - 1971 [4]; to Jane
Engelhard, by descent 1971 - ca. 1972; (with Wildenstein and Company, New York, ca. 1972)[5]; Fine Arts Gallery,
San Diego, California (now San Diego Museum of Art), June 22, 1972.
Provenance Notes
- The date of 1913 was published in the exhibition catalogue for Daumier, organized by the Réunion
des Musées Nationaux, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Phillips Collection, 1999. The painting
was illustrated in an article on the Nathan collection published in 1917 in Kunst and Künstler. Hugo
Nathan was born in 1868 and died in 1922.
- Martha Nathan received the entire estate of her husband. They had no children. Mrs. Nathan was a Dreyfus,
from the distinguished French banking family. She had three brothers. The bank had branches in France,
Germany (Berlin and Frankfurt), and Switzerland (Basel).
- Georges Wildenstein was authorized to view the Nathan collection on deposit to the Kunstmuseum in Basel. He
and two others purchased the painting in shares. The others were Thannhauser Gallery and "a third party,"
possibly Jacob Heimann, who offered the painting to SDMA ca. 1943. The painting was consigned to the New York
branch of Wildenstein in 1939. It was exhibited in Wildenstein, The French Revolution, in December, 1943
and reviewed that same month in Art News.
- While three dealers shared interest in the painting, it was purchased by the Engelhards from Thannhauser.
- The painting was sent by Mrs. Engelhard on consignment to Wildenstein, New York.
