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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Look! See how his eyes are on the saveloys and the ham.... it seems we like Papa's job?..... my little piglet!,” plate 51 from Moeurs Conjugales

1842
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
23.2 × 21.2 cm (9.1 × 8.3 in)

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