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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- I'll go public with my business.... this is the right moment... I form a company with a capital of 3 Million Francs..... for the production of artifical plums!.... - I can already see you coming, you will ask me for the kernels,” plate 1 from Les Faiseurs D'affaires

1856
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso
19.1 × 24 cm (7.5 × 9.4 in)

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