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Gold Is a Chimera by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

Gold Is a Chimera

Gold Is a Chimera

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

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

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At 30°C, lucky he who can escape and snooze in the forest of Saint-Germain accompanied by his wife and a few lizards, plate 27 from Les Bons Bourgeois

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At The Bar. Meeting point for the true lovers of French sculpture and Bavarian beer, plate 5 from Croquis pris à l'exposition

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