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Mr. Busybody, a lawyer without a case, pretends to be most busy, knocks down a dozen children every day in the lobby, runs over five or six pug-dogs and hopes - thanks to these gymnastics - to make the people believe that he has many clients. (Mr. Tout Affaires, avocat sans causes, se donne l’air empressé, et renverse, chaque jour, dans la salle des pas perdus, une douzaine de moutards, écrase cinq ou six carlins, et espère grace à cette gymnastique, faire croire à ses nombreux clients.), number 5 from the series The Parisians (Les Parisiens)

Mr. Busybody, a lawyer without a case, pretends to be most busy, knocks down a dozen children every day in the lobby, runs over five or six pug-dogs and hopes - thanks to these gymnastics - to make the people believe that he has many clients. (Mr. Tout Affaires, avocat sans causes, se donne l’air empressé, et renverse, chaque jour, dans la salle des pas perdus, une douzaine de moutards, écrase cinq ou six carlins, et espère grace à cette gymnastique, faire croire à ses nombreux clients.), number 5 from the series The Parisians (Les Parisiens)

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Honoré Daumier

Artist/Maker
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Title
Mr. Busybody, a lawyer without a case, pretends to be most busy, knocks down a dozen children every day in the lobby, runs over five or six pug-dogs and hopes - thanks to these gymnastics - to make the people believe that he has many clients. (Mr. Tout Affaires, avocat sans causes, se donne l’air empressé, et renverse, chaque jour, dans la salle des pas perdus, une douzaine de moutards, écrase cinq ou six carlins, et espère grace à cette gymnastique, faire croire à ses nombreux clients.), number 5 from the series The Parisians (Les Parisiens)
Date
1840
Material & Process
Lithograph
Dimensions
8 7/16 x 8 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Helen Wurdemann
Inventory No.
1976.70
Classification
Prints
Location
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. 758

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