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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Well, are you finally finished?... after all it's tiring to relax for such a long time,” plate 1 from Les Artistes A La Campagne

1865
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
23 × 20 cm (9.1 × 7.9 in)

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