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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Interior of a Family on January 2 - or the Danger of Consuming Immoderately Non-Hygienic Sweets, plate 62 from Actualités

1853
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
21.4 × 26.5 cm (8.4 × 10.4 in)

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