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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“My sister was saying yesterday, she thinks you are just too ugly!,” plate 37 from Croquis D 'expressions

published November 22, 1838
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso, laid down on tan wove paper
18.3 × 23 cm (7.2 × 9.1 in)

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