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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Don't worry, Eleonore... it's nothing, it's just a little wind announcing the arrival of spring,” plate 34 from Croquis Parisiens

1857
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso
19.7 × 25.4 cm (7.8 × 10 in)

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