Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1852
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.1295
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: Physionomies du palais de Justice
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: Si vous vouliez avoir la bonté de plaider ma cause, vous pourriez compter su mon éternelle reconnaissance!...
Here an indigent man pleads with a lawyer to represent him out of “kindness,” of which Daumier’s lawyer is surely lacking. The man seeking legal help offers only his ongoing “gratitude” in return. The lawyer responds by turning his back and, with his nose held in the air, snubs the poor man’s request. Daumier apparently viewed the lawyers of his day as heartless and insensitive to people lacking the means to afford their services.
Included in the Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.