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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The inconvenience of leaving the train even only for a moment and for any pretext whatsoever, plate 29 from Les Bons Bourgeois

1847
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
25.7 × 22.5 cm (10.1 × 8.9 in)

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