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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

It’s strange: nothing is picking up at the stock exchange, not even the chestnut trees!, plate 520 from Actualités

1858
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20.7 × 25.8 cm (8.1 × 10.2 in)

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