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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- How do you find this saint there.... I tried to not make him look too conventional.... The bourgeois: - I quite agree, a Saint never should look short winded,” plate 80 from Les Bons Bourgeois

1847
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
25.9 × 21 cm (10.2 × 8.3 in)

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