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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A literary argument on the second tier, plate 3 from Croquis Pris Au Théatre par Daumier

published February 27, 1864
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
23.7 × 21.8 cm (9.3 × 8.6 in)

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