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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Diogenes and Alcibiades at the Odeon. “- Ah... it's modern....what a man!,” plate 121 from Actualités

published January 23, 1846
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
24.4 × 22.8 cm (9.6 × 9 in)

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