Monsieur Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is delightful. It's an exact picture of the thieves of our period... the faithful portrait of innumerable crooked characters one finds everywhere - in business, in politics, in bureaucracy, in finance, everywhere! everywhere! The scoundrels must bear you quite a grudge... But you have the esteem of honest people... You haven't been given the Cross of Honor yet?... That's really shocking!
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Caricaturana
Artist: Honoré Daumier|Le Charivari
Artist bio: French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois| 
Artist role: Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: French|French
Date: April 8, 1838
Medium: Lithograph with coloring; third state of four
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Georgina W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession year: 1924
Tags: Men