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My dear friend, you see, I wasn't born to be a marquis..." by Honoré Daumier — VisualArtsDB

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My dear friend, you see, I wasn't born to be a marquis..."

My dear friend, you see, I wasn't born to be a marquis..."

My dear friend, you see, I wasn't born to be a marquis..."

Honoré Daumier

1858

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: design: 22.8 x 25.8 cm (9 x 10 3/16 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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