Une DEMANDE EN SÉPARATION. - Mon client n'est pas un des maris présomptueux qui viennent se vanter devant vous d'avoir été trompés par leur femme, sans avoir autre chose que de vagues soupçons... grâce au ciel nous avons des preuves... nous en avons à foison, et c'est le front levé et sans crainte d'un démenti, que monsieur peut annoncer hautement et en tout lieux... qu'il est... qu'il est... enfin ce qu'il est!...

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Title:
Une DEMANDE EN SÉPARATION. - Mon client n'est pas un des maris présomptueux qui viennent se vanter devant vous d'avoir été trompés par leur femme, sans avoir autre chose que de vagues soupçons... grâce au ciel nous avons des preuves... nous en avons à foison, et c'est le front levé et sans crainte d'un démenti, que monsieur peut annoncer hautement et en tout lieux... qu'il est... qu'il est... enfin ce qu'il est!...
Title (alt.):
A DIVORCE CASE. - My client is not one of these presumptuous husbands who appear here before you in order to boast that they have been deceived by their wives with nothing but vague suspicions for saying so... Thank God, we have proof... We have plenty of it, and holding his head high, and without fear of contradiction, the gentleman can say loud and clear... that he is... that he is... well, that he is what he is.... Charivari
Description:
A lawyer is defending his client during a divorce suit. In a court hearing, the important oratorical "activity" took place between the prosecutor, the defendant's advocate and to a certain extent the presiding judge. The jury, although important in delivering their final decision of a case, was hardly ever shown by Daumier. The verbal maneuvering took place between the two main opponents, while the judges remained impartial. This may be the reason why Daumier often showed them as sleeping or yawning, while the prosecutor or the advocate were delivering passionate oratories.
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:
Lawyers
Clients
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Divorce suits
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 37 x 25.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/1464
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, January 29, 1845.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD1127