Vous aviez faim ... vous aviez faim...ça n'est pas une raison ... mais moi aussi presque tous les jours j'ai faim et je ne vole pas pour cela!....

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Title:
Vous aviez faim ... vous aviez faim...ça n'est pas une raison ... mais moi aussi presque tous les jours j'ai faim et je ne vole pas pour cela!....
Title (alt.):
Charivari. So you were hungry... that's no excuse! I am hungry myself almost every day, yet I don't go out stealing!
Description:
The complacent, presumptuous judge cannot imagine hunger as a motivation for crime. Daumier is not justifying the crime represented here, but rather he is showing the complacent attitude of the judge. It is worth noting that 45% of all judges during this period came from so-called bourgeois families of civil servants.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1845
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Theft
Judges
Prisoners
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Judicial process
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 26.5 x 35 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/1702
Terms of Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, October 20, 1845.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD1351