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Reading the newspaper in the family circle by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

Reading the newspaper in the family circle

Reading the newspaper in the family circle

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1835

Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 12.9 × 16 cm (5 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 19.1 × 25.8 cm (7 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Genre: lithograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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