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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Physiognomy of the Stock Exchange. The despair of the baissier and the triumph of the haussier - or crying and laughing, plate 440 from Actualités

1857
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
19.9 × 25.4 cm (7.8 × 10 in)

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