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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“I say to myself: would anybody imagine that we are coming from the Rue des Lombards?... We really don't look like confectioners at all,” plate 2 from Coquetry

1839
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
26.2 × 20 cm (10.3 × 7.9 in)

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