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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Inside a Butcher's Shop in Paris. “Come on my dear..... I know it is tough to sell our beef as cheap as that..... but that's no reason to weep like a calf!,” plate 75 from Actualités

1851
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
20 × 26.1 cm (7.9 × 10.3 in)

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