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I tell you that your wife insulted mine, sir! by Paul Gavarni — VisualArtsDB

I tell you that your wife insulted mine, sir!

I tell you that your wife insulted mine, sir!

Medium: Lithograph
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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french

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The Magic Lantern

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Come on! Madame Highness, just between us does Monsieur respect himself so much that he wouldn't give Madame a blow? p. 9

Come on! Madame Highness, just between us does Monsieur respect himself so much that he wouldn't give Madame a blow? p. 9

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Go to Paris, John, go earn your living . . .

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Paul Gavarni, 1847

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