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The First Class Carriage
1864
watercolor, ink wash and charcoal on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
(18th and 19th Centuries )
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Commissioned by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, June 6, 1864 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 179.
Exhibitions
| 2008-2009 | Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. |
| 2005-2006 | The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. |
| 1999-2000 | Daumier 1808-1879. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musee D'Orsay, Paris; The Phillips Collection, Washington. |
| 1992-1993 | Honoré Daumier: Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik (Daumier - Drawings). Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1989-1990 | Daumier and the Art of Caricature. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
| 1988 | Artists as Travellers. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1983-1984 | Honore Daumier, Georges Rouault. Académie de France à Rome, Roma. |
| 1983 | A Connoisseur's Portfolio: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1979 | A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1979 | Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). National Gallery of Art, Washington. |
| 1979 | A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, 1860-1909. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1967 | An Exhibition of the Treasures of The Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York. |
| 1961 | Daumier: Paintings and Drawings. Tate Gallery, London. |
| 1951 | From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. |
| 1937 | Daumier, 1808-1879. Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 4/19/1961 | Treatment | mounted; re-housed |
| 5/31/1983 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 6/16/1983 | Treatment | re-housed |
| 9/19/1983 | Treatment | mounted; re-housed |
| 8/27/1989 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 10/15/1989 | Treatment | examined for loan; other |
| 10/17/1989 | Treatment | mounted; re-housed |
| 2/12/1992 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 5/8/1992 | Examination | examined for technical study |
| 10/15/1992 | Treatment | mounted; re-housed |
| 2/1/2000 | Examination | examined for loan |
| 1/1/2002 | Treatment | examined for exhibition; examined for loan; mounted; re-housed |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 8 1/16 x W: 11 13/16 in. (20.5 x 30 cm)
Credit Line
Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1864
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1225