Harvard Art Museums
Who is more pitiable in the world than a man united with ... a dockman? It's a woman at the mercy of Pierrot.
Paul Gavarni
- Date
- 1852
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Department of Prints
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
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