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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Looking at the Painting of Manet. “- Why the devil is this fat, red-faced woman in her nightdress called Olympia? - But my dear, perhaps that's the name of the black cat," plate 9 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier

1865
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
22.8 × 19 cm (9 × 7.5 in)

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