The Refusal (Mon cher Monsieur, impossible de plaide votre affaire)

Series TitleLes Gens de Justice

Artist Honoré Daumier (French, 1808 - 1879)

Date1846

MediumLithograph

DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 × 7 3/4 inches (22.7 × 19.69 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-963

Edition/State/ProofPlate 20

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Not on view

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Exhibition History

University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1952.

Justice and the Palette, Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, March 10-April 28, 1968.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by October 6, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Loÿs Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 23 (Paris: 1926), no. 1356 II/II, unpaginated, (repro.), as Mon cher monsieur…impossible de plaide votre affaire.

Justice and the Palette, exh. cat. (Johnson City, TN: Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, 1968).

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 296, as The Refusal, Plate 20 of Les Gens de Justice.

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