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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Say then, Madme. Giboulard … don't you agree that it is not very pleasant for women of our gender, to come down like this everyday, cleaning the gutters of St. Honoré … - That's true, Madame Chaffarou, but we can also praise ourselves of being the only ones to embellish Paris!,” plate 75 from Caricatures Du Jour

1843
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
22.9 × 17.8 cm (9 × 7 in)

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