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Obligatory Preludes to Every Amateur Concert by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

Obligatory Preludes to Every Amateur Concert

Obligatory Preludes to Every Amateur Concert

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1852

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

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french

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The Professor's Lesson. Madame, always have dignity in the gesture... in pronouncing your sentence, be careful to imitate me... combine the gesture with contempt.

The Professor's Lesson. Madame, always have dignity in the gesture... in pronouncing your sentence, be careful to imitate me... combine the gesture with contempt.

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Waiting-room for the Brussels Train -- View Taken During a Day of a Sell-off at the Stock Exchange

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The Inconvenience of Having His Hair Curled. “Oh blast.... look here, watch out... you are burning me.... I am meeting someone, and I want you to make me look good....... but in order to declare my burning passion, I don't need to smell scorched!,” plate 31 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

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