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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Three Judges

1858/60
Watercolor and brush and black gouache, with charcoal, heightened with gray gouache, over touches of graphite, on ivory laid paper
36.3 × 53.8 cm (14.3 × 21.2 in)

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