Husband: “My dear, how about a first kiss on my chin?” The wife (aside): “To think that I am married to this face!,” plate 21 from Moeurs Conjugalesa

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Husband: “My dear, how about a first kiss on my chin?” The wife (aside): “To think that I am married to this face!,” plate 21 from Moeurs Conjugalesa

Honoré Victorin Daumier

Date
published March 29, 1840
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
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