Title: "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
Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
Date: April 17, 1845
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Muriel Washer, 2013
Accession Number: 2013.999.3
Signature: initialed in the plate at lower left: h.D.
Inscription: Inscribed below the image, lower left: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse 29.
Inscribed below the image, lower right: Imp. Mourlot Fres.
Inscribed with text below image, which translates as: “Would you write a letter that would soften the bailiff's heart?
- Soften the heart of a bailiff? You surely are not French, my good man!”
Marking: Collector’s stamp in reddish brown, lower right: A.S. (not in Lugt)
Original from the MET Museum
Public Domain