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The Burden
(18th and 19th Centuries )
On January 14, 1852, the printer and publisher of Charles Baudelaire, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, after a visit to Daumier's studio, recorded seeing a representation of a washer-woman pulling a young girl along a quay in a high wind, a possible reference to this sculpture. It was a theme that the artist also treated in paintings and drawings. Daumier did not consider himself a sculptor. The few pieces that he did produce are thought to have been intended as "maquettes" (models) for his pictures. The compositions original inspiration may have been an illustration to a passage in Eugene Süe's well known "Mystères de Paris" (1843). The drawing by Charles Joseph Travies de Villers was engraved by Hippolyte Lavoignat and shows the waif Fleur-de-Marie with the one-eyed "La Chouette" returning home across the Pont-Notre Dame.
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Provenance
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Pierre Cloix, Paris; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; purchased by Walters Art Museum, 1949.
Exhibitions
| 2003-2004 | Daumier and the Art of Caricature. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
| 1995 | Parallels and Precedents: Baltimore's George A. Lucas Collection. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
| 1989-1990 | Daumier and the Art of Caricature. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 13 3/8 × W: 8 11/16 × D: 6 7/16 in. (34 × 22 × 16.4 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1949
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.524