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Honoré Daumier

If patience had disappeared all over the world, one would surely find it again at a bus station in Paris, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, February 4, 1865

February 4, 1865
Lithograph on newsprint; third state of three (Delteil)
17.5 × 24.5 cm (6.9 × 9.6 in)

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