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Jean Louis Forain

I Don't Dare Take Them Down...It Would Hurt Him Too Much

c. 1892
Lithograph hand-colored with blue and yellow colored crayons on light ivory wove paper
33.2 × 28.5 cm (13.1 × 11.2 in)

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