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Self Reflection
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SKU
WMET0267
This Met x Wendover Art Group design draws inspiration from an original work of art in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Our inspiration: A Man Reading in a Garden (recto)
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
Watercolor over black chalk, with pen and ink, brush and wash,
and lithographic crayon; 13 5/16 x 10 5/8 in.; ca. 1865
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer,
1929 29.100.199
After Daumier’s death, this drawing came into the hands of the Paris art dealers Boussod & Valadon, where Vincent van Gogh’s brother, Theo, worked. Van Gogh seems to have recalled seeing it, writing to his brother on October 22, 1882: “I remember very well being most impressed by a drawing of Daumier’s: an old man under the chestnut trees in the Champs Elysées… What impressed me so much at the time was something so stout and manly in Daumier’s conception, something that made me think it must be good to think and to feel like that and to overlook or ignore a multitude of things and to concentrate on what makes us sit up and think and what touches us as human beings more directly and personally than meadows or clouds.”
This Met x Wendover Art Group design draws inspiration from an original work of art in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Our inspiration: A Man Reading in a Garden (recto)
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
Watercolor over black chalk, with pen and ink, brush and wash,
and lithographic crayon; 13 5/16 x 10 5/8 in.; ca. 1865
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer,
1929 29.100.199
After Daumier’s death, this drawing came into the hands of the Paris art dealers Boussod & Valadon, where Vincent van Gogh’s brother, Theo, worked. Van Gogh seems to have recalled seeing it, writing to his brother on October 22, 1882: “I remember very well being most impressed by a drawing of Daumier’s: an old man under the chestnut trees in the Champs Elysées… What impressed me so much at the time was something so stout and manly in Daumier’s conception, something that made me think it must be good to think and to feel like that and to overlook or ignore a multitude of things and to concentrate on what makes us sit up and think and what touches us as human beings more directly and personally than meadows or clouds.”
