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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Poor young man! Just one more letter and his moral situation would become perfectly clear, plate 1 from Sentimens Et Passionsa

1840
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
19.7 × 20.1 cm (7.8 × 7.9 in)

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