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What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction
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About this work
This print was published in Le Charivari (August 30 1846) as plate 14 from the series The Good Bourgeois.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Good Bourgeois: What the bourgeois calls a slight distraction, 1846. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), Aubert. Lithograph; sheet: 33.9 x 25.8 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1922.282
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