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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Evening of the National Holiday. It never fails... you go out to see the fireworks, and all you get is waterworks!, plate 20 from The Best Days in Life

1844
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
22.5 × 22.5 cm (8.9 × 8.9 in)

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