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Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier|Destouches

L'astronome allemand lâchant un fameux canard, from La Comète de 1857, published in Le Charivari, March 17, 1857

January 13, 1858
Lithograph; third state of three (Delteil)
25 × 36 cm (9.8 × 14.2 in)

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