You were hungry . . . you were hungry . . . that's no excuse . . . I am hungry myself almost every day, yet I don't go out stealing! (Vous aviez faim . . . vous aviez faim . . . ça n'est pas une raison . . . mais moi aussi presque tous les jours j'ai faim et je ne vole pas pour cela!), number 15 from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)

You were hungry . . . you were hungry . . . that's no excuse . . . I am hungry myself almost every day, yet I don't go out stealing! (Vous aviez faim . . . vous aviez faim . . . ça n'est pas une raison . . . mais moi aussi presque tous les jours j'ai faim et je ne vole pas pour cela!), number 15 from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
You were hungry . . . you were hungry . . . that's no excuse . . . I am hungry myself almost every day, yet I don't go out stealing! (Vous aviez faim . . . vous aviez faim . . . ça n'est pas une raison . . . mais moi aussi presque tous les jours j'ai faim et je ne vole pas pour cela!), number 15 from the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice)
Date
1845
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 10 1/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Accession No.
1976.47
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. 1351

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