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Would you write a letter that would soften the bailiff's heart? - Soften the heart of a bailiff? You surely are not French, my good man! (Faut-y faire une lettre pour l'attendrir? - Attendrir un huissier! . . . vous n'êtes donc pas français, mon brave homme?), number 5 from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)

Would you write a letter that would soften the bailiff's heart? - Soften the heart of a bailiff? You surely are not French, my good man! (Faut-y faire une lettre pour l'attendrir? - Attendrir un huissier! . . . vous n'êtes donc pas français, mon brave homme?), number 5 from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Would you write a letter that would soften the bailiff's heart? - Soften the heart of a bailiff? You surely are not French, my good man! (Faut-y faire une lettre pour l'attendrir? - Attendrir un huissier! . . . vous n'êtes donc pas français, mon brave homme?), number 5 from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)
Date
1845
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
9 1/4 x 7 7/16 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1976.37
Classification
Prints
Geography
France

Related

to 1976, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi](Los Angeles); June 1976, gifted to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 1341

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