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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

- Taken by her operetta part, Madame de St. Chalumeau is shouting so loud that she does not notice the bellowing of her child, plate 13 from Les Comédiens De Société

1858
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20.6 × 25.6 cm (8.1 × 10.1 in)

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