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Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier|Destouches

Working in the garden can be fun... but there are days when it is just too damn hot! / One rejoices in pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting one's own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, from 'The joys of country life,' published in Le Charivari, September 14, 1865

September 14, 1865
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
25 × 21.6 cm (9.8 × 8.5 in)

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