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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Come on in, Monsieur, don't be shy. It's a living picture.... just like (you'd see) at the Porte St. Martin,” plate 62 from Les Bons Bourgeois

1847
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
24.7 × 21.8 cm (9.7 × 8.6 in)

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