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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Friendship With a Great Chemist is Not Always a Godsend… “I am so sure of my findings that I will now poison my best friend, Mr. Coquardeau, and I will retrieve arsenic in his eyeglasses,” plate 39 from Émotions Parisiennes

1841
Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso
22.6 × 19 cm (8.9 × 7.5 in)

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