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“There goes my wife!! Oh, the wretch, while I'm having a shave she's making a cuckold of me!,” plate 22 from Moeurs Conjugales
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- 1840
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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