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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Monsieur, I quit your service, I am going home... I don't want to be here when the world ends,” plate 4 from La Cométe De 1857

1857
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20.7 × 25.8 cm (8.1 × 10.2 in)

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