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

"Here is a pleasant surprise!"

"Here is a pleasant surprise!"

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1841

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

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french

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Mr. Coste noticing that the fish he took out of the water in order to analyse their state of health, end up feeling not well at all, plate 387 from Actualités

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Mr. Benjamin Dudessert, plate 287 from Célébrités de la Caricature

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