Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1848
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.1078
Collection/Provenance
University Art Collections: Lilly Jacobson Collection, Art & Design Dept.
Status
Displayed: Second Floor, near the Fredrikson & Byron Law Firm Office suite
Location
UND School of Law
Additional Information
Series:Les Gens de Justice
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: Quand le crime ne donne pas.
Daumier’s satirical message here is that lawyers will not get paid unless there are lawbreakers who need to hire them.
Because the crime rate has apparently gone down, the lawyers in the lithograph seem to experience melancholy over their loss of income from defending criminals. Two lawyers look unhappy as they play dominos, while the third appears slumped in depression.
Included in the Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.