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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

"Would Monsieur like some crêpes?.. - He must have been an undertaker," plate five from Croquis Parisiens (Parisian Sketches)

published May 9, 1855
Lithograph on cream wove paper
23.5 × 24 cm (9.3 × 9.4 in)

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