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Honoré Daumier

If you knew how pretty you are!

1841
lithograph

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

This print was published in Le Charivari (March 6, 1843) as plate 6 from the series The Musicians of Paris. The collection had first been published in La Caricature, between August and November, 1841.

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