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Your client is a scoundrel, from 'Sketches,' published in Le Charivari, June 6, 1866

Printer Destouches French
Publisher Arnaud de Vresse French
June 6, 1866
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- Your client is a scoundrel. He has murdered six women and you are still pleading for extenuating circumstances?
- Certainly... all the members of the jury are married men?

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Your client is a scoundrel, from 'Sketches,' published in Le Charivari, June 6, 1866
  • Series/Portfolio: 'Sketches' (Croquis par Daumier)
  • Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
  • Printer: Destouches (Paris)
  • Publisher: Arnaud de Vresse
  • Date: June 6, 1866
  • Medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
  • Dimensions: Image: 9 in. × 8 1/2 in. (22.9 × 21.6 cm)
    Sheet: 11 3/4 × 11 7/16 in. (29.9 × 29 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
  • Object Number: 22.61.312
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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