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"Here is a pleasant surprise!" by Honoré Daumier — VisualArtsDB

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"Here is a pleasant surprise!"

"Here is a pleasant surprise!"

"Here is a pleasant surprise!"

Honoré Daumier

1841

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

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french

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