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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Difficult to imagine that in my days I also was an acclaimed Spanish dancer... nowadays only my castanets are Spanish... what a drag...,” plate 11 from Croquis Dramatiques

1857
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
21.4 × 25.3 cm (8.4 × 10 in)

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