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- Yes, they would plunder this orphan, whom I cannot necessarily describe as being young, since he is fifty-seven years old, but it is no less an orphan . . . yet . . . I am reassured knowing that justice always keeps an open eye on all guilty manoeuvers . . . (- Oui, on veut dépoiler cet orphelin, que je ne qualifie pas de jeune, puis qu'il a cinquante sept ans, mails il n'en est pas moins orphelin.... je me rassure toute fois, messieurs, car la justice a toujours les yeux ouverts sur toutes les coupables menées! . . . ), number from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)

- Yes, they would plunder this orphan, whom I cannot necessarily describe as being young, since he is fifty-seven years old, but it is no less an orphan . . . yet . . . I am reassured knowing that justice always keeps an open eye on all guilty manoeuvers . . . (- Oui, on veut dépoiler cet orphelin, que je ne qualifie pas de jeune, puis qu'il a cinquante sept ans, mails il n'en est pas moins orphelin.... je me rassure toute fois, messieurs, car la justice a toujours les yeux ouverts sur toutes les coupables menées! . . . ), number from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
- Yes, they would plunder this orphan, whom I cannot necessarily describe as being young, since he is fifty-seven years old, but it is no less an orphan . . . yet . . . I am reassured knowing that justice always keeps an open eye on all guilty manoeuvers . . . (- Oui, on veut dépoiler cet orphelin, que je ne qualifie pas de jeune, puis qu'il a cinquante sept ans, mails il n'en est pas moins orphelin.... je me rassure toute fois, messieurs, car la justice a toujours les yeux ouverts sur toutes les coupables menées! . . . ), number from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)
Date
1845
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 10 3/32 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1976.43
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. 1347

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