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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Ass and Two Thieves, plate 75 from Souvenirs d’artistes

1862
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone and with fawn tint stone on ivory wove paper
22.9 × 20.3 cm (9 × 8 in)

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