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True, you have lost your case…but you surely must have enjoyed the eloquence of my pleading!

Honoré Daumier, Aubert, and others

True, you have lost your case…but you surely must have enjoyed the eloquence of my pleading!

1832

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True, you have lost your case…but you surely must have enjoyed the eloquence of my pleading!

1832

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with hand coloring, Sheet: 318 x 243 mm. (12 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.) Image: 239 x 182 mm. (9 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, the Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.3901
Published in the journal "Le Charivari" on April 27, 1848.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
N.-A. Hazard and Loys Delteil, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier (Orrouy, Oise: Chez N. A. Hazard, 1904), p. 407, #1882.

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1925-1926), vol. 23, n. p., #1371.

The Daumier Register, http://www.daumier-register.org/, #1371,

Inscribed: Signed in stone: lower left "h.D." Inscribed in stone: upper center "LES GENS DE JUSTICE."; upper right "35."; lower left, in image "1097"; lower left "Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse."; lower center "-Vous avez perdu votre procès c'est vrai ..... mais vous avez du éprouver bien du plaisir à / m'entendre plaider."; lower right "Imp. Aubert & Cie."

Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

Honoré Daumier

1807–1878

French, 1808-1879
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Publisher

Aubert

2000–2000

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Printer

Aubert & Cie.

2000–2000

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