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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Andromache. “- Our family 's destiny was pitiless death, my husband was tortured to the end of his breath,” plate 6 from Physionomies Tragiques

1851
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
19.9 × 28 cm (7.8 × 11 in)

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