Honoré Daumier  (1808 – 1879)

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Jurists / Scene with lawyers

Series: Croquis Parisiens par Daumier

Subject: Jurists / Scene with lawyers

Title: - Eh bien, mon cher, vous avez perdu, vous qui aviez affirmé à votre client que vous gagneriez.
- Eh bien oui, en plaidant sa cause j'ai gagné.... cinq cents francs.
(- Well my friend, you have lost, but didn't you tell your client that you would win?
- Of course, by defending him I have won... 500 Francs).

Page No 12, Stone No 68, from the satirical newspaper “Le Charivari“. Monogrammed on the stone 'hD'.

Lithograph by Honoré Daumier, Paris 1864, 27,5 x 22 cm. With passepartout.

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