"Faut-y faire une lettre pour l’attendrir?.../ Attendrir un huissier!..vous n’êtes donc pas français, mon brave homme?...." , plate 5 from Les Gens de Justice
Honoré Daumier
April 17, 1845
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, in memory of Muriel Washer, 2013
Accession Number
2013.999.3
Tags
MenWomenWriting
About the Artist
Honoré Daumier · 1810–1879
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor whose works offered incisive commentary on the social and political life of 19th-century France. Known as the 'Michelangelo of Caricature,' Daumier produced over 4,000 lithographs, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, and 100 sculptures during his lifetime. His biting political satire led to his imp...