The world of Lawyers and justice at Honoré DaumierHonoré Daumier makes the Palais de Justice a modern theater: black dresses, profiles, hands and postures reveal eloquence, professional vanity, solidarity and fatigue of litigants.
1808 - 1879Life of Honoré Daumier
1830s -1860sGreat period of the judicial series
Paris CourthouseMain observatory of lawyers
€6,000 worksLithographs, engravings, paintings, drawings and sculptures created, overall estimate
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Tribunal, rhetoric and social satire · 1808-1879
Honoré Daumier makes the Palais de Justice a modern theater: black dresses, profiles, hands and postures reveal eloquence, professional vanity, solidarity and fatigue of litigants.
Honoré Daumier was born in Marseille in 1808 and grew up in Paris. Lithographer for La Caricature then Le Charivari, he learned to condense a social situation into a few immediately readable gestures. The legal world became one of his great laboratories. He frequented the hearings, observed the corridors of the Palais de Justice and from the 1830s multiplied lawyers, judges, litigants and clients in his lithographs, drawings and paintings. The black dress provided a powerful graphic mass; beneath her, a curved back, a raised chin or an open hand were enough to transform the function into a character. Daumier criticizes the theatricality of the pleading, the conversations between colleagues and the confidence of those who master language in the face of often silent litigants. However, the series is not reduced to caricature. In Au Palais de Justice or Les Deux Avocats, dull light, dense material and close framing give the figures an almost monumental gravity. The artist thus moves from printed laughter to a painting where ambiguity remains: the lawyer can be ridiculous, concentrated, united or isolated. Groups of two or three men are based on minute variations of profile, handle and gesture. Pleading lawyer exaggerates the movement of eloquence; Triumphant lawyer transforms victory into bodily posture. This judicial chronicle joins daumier's realistic ensemble, attentive to travelers, workers and bourgeois of Paris. Above all, it shows how an institution becomes visible through those who inhabit it: architecture, costume and body compose a comedy of power where satire never completely erases humanity. The selection "Lawyers and justice at Honoré Daumier" notably compares the two fellow Lawyers - Honoré Daumier and Au Palais de Justice - Honoré Daumier. His reading favors color.
In Daumier, justice speaks with the whole body: a sleeve, a profile or a raised hand already reveals rhetoric and the power relationship.
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Journey, subjects and pictorial language
The political press forms the satirical gaze
Philipon, lithography and trial teach Daumier how justice, power and image are linked. This milestone sheds light on the "Lawyers and justice at Honoré Daumier" collection by favoring color.
The Palace becomes a comedy of gestures
Lawyers, judges and clients feed series where costume and posture summarize social relationships.
Painting gives dresses a monumental mass
Free matter and low light go beyond the gag without abandoning critical observation.
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Black dress
Professional clothing becomes a large mass which unifies or opposes the figures. This line guides a reading of "Lawyers and justice at Honoré Daumier" centered on color.
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Rhetorical hand
Pointed finger, open palm and thrown arm make the argument almost visible.
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Profile-load
Forehead, nose and chin concentrate character, status and confidence in a silhouette.
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Muted matter
Brown, black and ocher give the judicial corridors a physical and moral density.
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Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a course exclusively devoted to Lawyers and Justice at Honoré Daumier.
Pleading01
Eloquence becomes movement
Arms, torso and mouth transform speech into bodily spectacle.
For a dynamic scene. Reading "Lawyers and justice at Honoré Daumier" through color.Brothers02
The duo reveals complicity and rivalry
Two close profiles are enough to suggest professional, secret or strategy exchanges.
For a tight compositionPalazzo03
The corridor shows the institution on a daily basis
Waiting and circulation replace official solemnity with human observation.
For a social sceneTriumph04
Victory can be read in posture
Straightened bust and confident gesture make pride immediately perceptible.
For a satirical workApproach05
Compare face, hand and dress
Meaning results from the combination of common costume and individual character.
To deepen the seriesFormat06
Preserve close gestures
A detailed reproduction preserves hands, expressions and accents of light.
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Four active reproductions confront colleagues, the Palace corridor, dialogue and a group of lawyers.
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