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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales

published April 11, 1841
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
23.5 × 18.9 cm (9.3 × 7.4 in)

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