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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Well...as the saying goes, like a genuine string of pearls, .... only some of them have become unthreaded, that's all!,” plate 9 from Coquetterie

1840
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
23.5 × 18.9 cm (9.3 × 7.4 in)

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