Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1865
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.0399
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: Croquis Parisiens par Daumier
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: J'ai parlé pendant trois heures et demie! - Ah! ça on vous prend donc à l'heure vous... moi je trouve que c'est bien plus avantageux de plaider à la course.
The caption accompanying this lithograph may suggest that the lawyers are talking about how they determine charges for their legal services. They are, however, actually discussing coach tariffs, which at the time involved either paying drivers by the hour or by the distances they traveled.
Included in the Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.