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“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier
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“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier

Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808-1879 · 1865 · Lithograph in black on white wove paper

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Credit line“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier. 1865. Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808-1879. The Art Institute of Chicago, William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment. CC0.
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