Quand le crime ne donne pas

About this work

Three men in stiff robes and tall hats sit around a table covered in odd objects—a half-melted candle, a glove, a pair of scissors. The room looks like a courtroom, but the men aren’t paying attention to each other. One scratches his head, another leans in like he’s solving a puzzle, and the third just stares blankly. The walls are bare, with a few faint sketches of hanging lamps and pipes. The title at the top reads *Les Gens de Justice*—“People of Justice”—but the scene feels more like a joke than a serious trial. The objects on the table look like clues from a bad mystery. The artist made this as a sharp critique of how justice (or lack of it) gets handled. If this style of sketching interests you, look up lithography.