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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier

1865
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
22 × 22.2 cm (8.7 × 8.7 in)

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