The Burden

ca. 1850

22 cm 34 cm 16.4 cm

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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...

Sculpture

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Pierre Cloix, Paris; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; purchased by Walters Art Museum, 1949.
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