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Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie

Here you see the great celebrities of literary, musical, and artistic France; they are thirty-six feet tall measured below sea level (Vous voyez ici les grandez célébrités), from Les Saltimbanques, published in La Caricature, April 28, 1839

April 28, 1839
Lithograph; second state of four (Delteil)
31.8 × 25 cm (12.5 × 9.8 in)

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