Alfred Prunaire and Honoré Daumier
The Grand Staircase of the Palace of Justice
1901
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Wood engraving with hand coloring, Sheet: 400 × 298 mm. (15 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Image: 355 × 262 mm. (14 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.15150
After the c. 1864 drawing by Daumier in the Lucas Collection (see 1996.48.18685; Maison 601); there are several additional impressions of the print in the Lucas collection.
A lawyer dressed in a robe and hat and holding a bundle of papers in his left arm walks down the staircase at the Palais de Justice. Another lawyer looks over his shoulder at the central figure. People mill about on the upper level in the background.
Inscribed: in image, lower left, in block "h. Daumier"; below image, lower right, in graphite(?) "à Monsieur G.A. Lucas / avec mes [indecipherable] / Alf. Prunaire / -2ie èpreuve- 190[indecipherable]"
Markings: none
