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Honoré Daumier

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c. 1863
Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper

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Honoré Daumier produced watercolors primarily for collectors of his work, suggesting that this image, somewhat ironically, was intended to be sold to the very figures it depicts.

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