Harvard Art Museums

Some say that your Monsieur, Monsieur Polyte, wants, despite the respect he owes you, to eat his estate in [truffes] truffles ... You mean in [turf] the racetrack, old man Pigaud., p. 11

Paul Gavarni

Date: 1853
Medium: Lithograph
Culture: French
Department: Department of Prints
Institution: Harvard Art Museums

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