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Les Baigneurs, plate 8: C'est un petit diable un vrai dauphin
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5572197
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Title
Les Baigneurs, plate 8: C'est un petit diable un vrai dauphin
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1839
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20.1 x 26.6 cm
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Full Title: 'C'est un petit diable, un vrai Dauphin; il adore l'eau! si on ne le retenait pas .... il y resterait' ('He is a little devil a real 'Dolphin' [=Prince]; he adores the water if one doesn't hold him back .... he would stay there.')
Coloured and gummed lithograph.
Good copy, some foxing and two marginal restorations.
Good copy, some foxing and two marginal restoration. #Delteil, 768.
Honoré Daumier, painter, lithographer and sculptor, born at Marseille in 1808, died at Valmondois in 1879, was the greatest caricaturist of his age. In 1832, his representation of Louis Philippe at Gargantua earned him six months in prison. He collaborated with Le Charivari (an illustrated magazine in Paris), where his direct and severe irony mercilessly ridiculed the bourgeosie in a realistic, powerful, and dramatically intense manner.