What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction

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What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction

Honoré Daumier

Date
1846
Medium
lithograph
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

This print was published in Le Charivari (August 30 1846) as plate 14 from the series The Good Bourgeois.

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