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| Keywords: Honoré Daumier, The Laundress - The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg Artwork Creator Honoré Daumier Gallery Label Best known for his lithographs �social satires and political caricatures that were published in the newspapers Le Charivari and La Caricature during the reign of Louis-Philippe 1830-48 �Daumier also produced some three hundred paintings The Laundress is the largest and possibly the last of three painted versions of this composition one of which was exhibited at the Salon of 1861 From his studio on the quai d'Anjou overlooking the Seine Daumier observed the laundresses returning from the laundry boats moored on the river their bodies hunched over from the weight of their loads as they ascended the stone steps of the embankment Daumier invested his views of the working class with a sense of dignity which in the 1870s and 1880s would be echoed in the novels of Émile Zola and the art of Edgar Degas 1863 Oil on wood in 19 25 13 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume Valmondois by 1878 �d 1892; his estate sale Hôtel Drouot Paris April 14 �15 1893 no 24 as Sortie du bateau à lessive for Fr 5 400 ; Paul Gallimard Paris by 1900 �probably 1926; sold to Hodebert ; Hodebert Paris 1926/27; Alex Reid and Lefevre London 1927; Knoedler London and New York 1927; sold to Bliss; Lizzie Lillie P Bliss New York 1927 �d 1931 ; provenanceEvent bequest Museum of Modern Art Lizzie P Bliss 1931 Museum of Modern Art New York 1931 �47 ; provenanceEvent transfer September 15 1947 MMA exhibition history Exhibition History Paris Galeries Durand-Ruel Daumier April 17 �June 15 1878 no 37 as Sortie du bateau à lessive lent by M Geoffroy-Dechaume Paris Exposition Internationale Universelle Exposition Centennale de l'art français 1800 �1889 May �November 1900 no 180 as Femme remontant du lavoir aux quais de la Seine lent by M Gallimard Paris Palais de l'École des Beaux-Arts Exposition Daumier May 1901 no 42 as Le Linge lent by Gallimard Paris Galerie Eugène Blot Daumier 1908 no 6 Copenhagen Musée Royal de Copenhague Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle May 15 �June 30 1914 no 61 as Laveuse du quai d'Anjou lent by P Gallimard Copenhagen Statens Museum for Kunst Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle 1917 no 314 see Ref Maison 1968 Basel Société des beaux-arts Exposition de peinture française 1918 no 35 see Ref Maison 1968 Basel Société des beaux-arts Exposition de peinture française May 8 �June 30 1921 no 51 as Le Linge lent by M Gallimard New York Museum of Modern Art Corot �Daumier October 16 �November 23 1930 no 80 lent from a private collection New York New York Museum of Modern Art Memorial Exhibition The Collection of the Late Miss Lizzie P Bliss Vice-President of the Museum May 17 �September 27 1931 no 23 Andover Mass Addison Gallery of American Art The Collection of Miss Lizzie P Bliss Fourth Loan Exhibition October 17 �December 15 1931 no 23 Indianapolis John Herron Art Institute Modern Masters from the Collection of Miss Lizzie P Bliss January 1932 no 23 Northampton Smith College Museum of Art January �February 1933 see Ref Barr and Klein 1934 New York Museum of Modern Art The Lillie P Bliss Collection May 14 �September 12 1934 no 22 Museum of Fine Arts Boston Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris March 15 �April 28 1935 no 3 lent by the Lillie P Bliss collection Museum of Modern Art Los Angeles Museum The Development of Impressionism January 12 �February 28 1940 no 13 lent by the Museum of Modern Art New York New York World's Fair Masterpieces of Art European American Paintings 1500 �1900 May �October 1940 no 258 lent by The Museum of Modern Art Lillie P Bliss Collection New York New York Wildenstein From Paris to the Sea Down the River Seine January 28 �February 27 1943 no 6 lent by the Museum of Modern Art New York Toledo Museum of Art The Spirit of Modern France An Essay on Painting in Society 1745 �1946 November �December 1946 no 28 lent by the Museum of Modern Art New York Art Gallery of Toronto The Spirit of Modern France An Essay on Painting in Society 1745 �1946 January �February 1947 no 28 Ottawa National Gallery of Canada Daumier 1808 �1879 June 11 �September 6 1999 no 163 Paris Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais Daumier 1808 �1879 October 5 1999 �January 3 2000 no 163 Washington Phillips Collection Daumier 1808 �1879 February 19 �May 14 2000 no 163 Museum of Fine Arts Houston The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1800 �1920 February 4 �May 6 2007 no 18 Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie Französische Meisterwerke des 19 Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art New York June 1 �October 7 2007 unnumbered cat 436091 h Daumier / 1863 signature/date lower left credit line Bequest of Lillie P Bliss 1931 accession number 47 122 PD-100 Paintings by Honoré Daumier in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Paintings of Paris by Honoré Daumier Paintings of people in Paris Urban life paintings of Paris Paris in the 1860s 1860s paintings from France Realist genre paintings Laundry in art Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Quai d'Anjou Paris Exposition centennale de l'art français 1900 | ||||
