Old Canson & Montgolfier paper, watermark, even has an old hot air balloon I think.
Daumier Drawings, Metropolitan Museum, p 136, contains scholarship re attribution of Baltimore's drawing, as tracery item for its painting.
Several problems there:
One is, Baltimore's drawing omits his self portrait at center back, which its painting, and other known examples, nevertheless contain.
Another (big) problem, Baltimore's drawing's faces often do not resemble the Met's painting's faces. Those on mine do, more than less; but then, too, its painting has been 'softened', somewhat, let us say.
Another lurking issue, age of either, or mine. Daumier had been doing railway images from at least the mid 50s; they show one. It had 3 windows.
Mine shows the edge of a third window at near left. I believe it may be older than either Baltimore drawing, or their painting.
Certainly there is a resignation, defeat, intra-class antagonism, and perhaps seldom seen sexism for Daumier, in my drawing, absent from others.
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