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A work made of lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso.

“- Arthur, you had promised me a throne and all you did is put me behind a counter. - Eloise, remember Napoleon's definition of a throne: 'four boards covered with a carpet.' You are sitting on six boards and a cushion,” plate 36 from Moeurs Conjugales

published April 11, 1841

Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879

France

Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso

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