HD 04                       RESTAURATEUR                  h. 17 cm

Mr. de Robert-Macaire restaurateur (Caricaturana #12, published in Le Charivari in 1836)

Robert Macaire notaire (Caricaturana #5, published in le Charivari in 1836) Daumier had been familiar with the world of notary ship ever since his youth, because for some time he worked as a clerk at a solicitor’s office. The slippers and the richly ornamented long robe were typical of the Parisian, money-thirsty notaries of those days.

 HD 05                            NOTAIRE                           h. 10 cm

HD 06                             AVOCAT                        h. 16 cm

Robert Macaire avocat (Caricaturana #9, published in Le Charivari in 1836) Here we see Robert Macaire as a solicitor, haughty and pompous. The legal profession was a lucrative one during times where criminality was soaring amongst the growing Parisian proletariat, and suppressed harshly by the bourgeoisie who enriched themselves at their expense