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Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier|Destouches

What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!..., from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 1, 1865

June 1, 1865
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
22.1 × 22.3 cm (8.7 × 8.8 in)

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