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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- I am not afraid for me, but if I think of poor Azor who will perish on the 13th of June... it simply breaks my heart,” plate 8 from La Cométe De 1857

1857
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20.7 × 25.7 cm (8.1 × 10.1 in)

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