1862
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Print Collectors is a 1862 watercolor by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Print Collectors is a watercolour work by Honore Daumier. It's a depiction of collectors and connoisseurs. Daumier often returned to this subject, and it's said that he chose it because it sold well to collectors who saw themselves in the scene. He was fascinated by the subject and came back to it many times. To learn more about the style and technique used in this work, look into the movement of Realism.
Honoré Daumier’s 1862 drawing depicts two collectors—one seated, one standing—examining prints from an open portfolio in a room densely adorned with paintings. The scene reflects Daumier’s recurring focus on the act of collecting, capturing the atmosphere of Parisian print shops and the broader culture of connoisseurship. The work was later owned by collector Constantine Alexander Ionides, who bequeathed it to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1900. A preparatory study for this drawing is held in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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