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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Well, if you want to liberate the butchers' commerce, why are you against my weighing a few bones with the meat?… you are really strange, same as ever!,” plate 472 from Actualités

1857
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
21 × 24.6 cm (8.3 × 9.7 in)

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