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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Here, my wife, is my daguerreotype portrait which I brought back for you from Paris... - Why didn't you have mine done while you were there... get lost, you egotist!,” plate 28 from Les Bons Bourgeois

1846
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
24.9 × 21.4 cm (9.8 × 8.4 in)

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