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Meanwhile They Keep on Insisting that She Has Never Been Better, plate 183 from Actualités
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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