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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Oedipe. “- When my sword cut into his bleeding heart - You are trembling Madame - It was then that the world was falling apart,” plate ten from Physionomies tragiques

1851
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20 × 28.3 cm (7.9 × 11.1 in)

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