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Item #17227 [Caricatures]. Plaignants, Accusés, Témoins à charge,...

[Caricatures]. Plaignants, Accusés, Témoins à charge, Témoins à décharge, Défenseurs.

Paris, 1868. Unpublished collection of 70 large original caricatures by Eugène Ladreyt. These watercolors show the life of the Courthouse during the Second Empire. They represent popular or professional archetypes, with very spiritual legends : small people of Paris defending themselves in slang, bourgeois full of sufficiency, lawyers' theatrical pose..... More

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