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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- This one may look as unhappy as a rock, before I would give him a job", plate 311 from Souvenirs d’artistes

1862
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
26.5 × 21.9 cm (10.4 × 8.6 in)

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