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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Thiers. Citizen Thiers Tries on the New Tail-Coat which Babin has Just Sent Him, plate 4 from Les Représentans Représentés

1848
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
23.9 × 17.5 cm (9.4 × 6.9 in)

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