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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A humanist woman of letters abandoning herself to the cerebral philosophic reflections on the subject of man!, plate 15 from Les Bas-Bleus

1844
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
23.2 × 18 cm (9.1 × 7.1 in)

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