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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

How to Convince a Young Man to Finally Learn to Pay his Respects to his Parents, plate 26 from Professeurs et Moutards (Professors and Rascals)

1846
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
19 × 24.9 cm (7.5 × 9.8 in)

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