The grand staircase of the Palais de Justice: View of Faces

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The grand staircase of the Palais de Justice: View of Faces

Honoré Daumier

Date
1848
Medium
Lithograph
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Daumier had little love of lawyers. He created 39 lithographs between 1845 and 1848 that address what he saw as the double-dealing and amorality of France's legal profession. This image, set on the grand staircase of the law courts, shows two self-satisfied barristers in all their glory. Europe

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