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When One's Portrait is Exhibited at the Salon
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This print (with title and captions added) was published in Le Charivari (April 26, 1845) as plate 59 from the series The Best Days in Life.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Best Days in Life: When One's Portrait is Exhibited at the Salon, 1845. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879). Lithograph; sheet: 34.7 x 26.4 cm (13 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.); image: 26.5 x 23.3 cm (10 7/16 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1947.458
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