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!

Honoré DaumierApril 8, 1838

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Title: 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!
Creator: Honoré Daumier|Le Charivari
Date Created: April 8, 1838
Type: Print
External Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/433574
Medium: Lithograph with coloring; third state of four
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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