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Plate 30: Robert Macaire before his judges, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
Honoré Daumier
- Date
- 1838
- Medium
- Lithograph on wove paper; second state of two (Delteil)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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