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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- I would have so much loved to make him a butcher too... now I am forced to make him a lawyer,” plate 467 from Actualités

1857
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
21.3 × 24.6 cm (8.4 × 9.7 in)

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