The Loge (In the Theatre Boxes)

ca. 1856-1857

30.7 cm 24.1 cm

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Louis Leroy, the editor of the popular magazines in which so many of Daumier's lithographs appeared, characterized the artist as a man who "scoffed at the rich and felt a great tenderness for the common people." It is the latter trait that prevails in this theater scene. The p...

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Mme Daubigny, 1878; Chailloux, June 13, 1881 [mode of acquisition unknown]; The George A. Lucas Collection, Baltimore, 1881, by purchase; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, May 9, 1910, by bequest [Henry Walters as executor]; Walters Art Museum, 1944, by indefinite loan; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by purchase.
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