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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The source of the Seine is the Cote d'Or, and it empties into the Channel. On its way it traverses Paris where the inhabitants escape the summer's heat and try to find freshness and purity in this river, plate 3 from Les Baigneurs

1839
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
20.4 × 27 cm (8 × 10.6 in)

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