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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Departure for Spain. “He will mount! he will not mount! he will mount! and no, he will not mount!!!,” plate 498

1835
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
21.5 × 27.4 cm (8.5 × 10.8 in)

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