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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

An Unpleasant Encounter, plate sixteen from Les Canotiers Parisiens

1843
Lithograph in black, with additions in pen and dark brown ink and caption in pen and brown ink, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
20 × 26.7 cm (7.9 × 10.5 in)

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