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HONORÉ DAUMIER
French, 1808-1879
In Front of the Paintings by Meissonier,
     No. 3 from The Public at the Salon
Lithograph, 1852
Burton Emmett Collection, 58.1.21
 

 

 DEVANT LES TABLEAUX DE MEISSONIER 

The painter Ernest Meissonier was famous for minutely detailed paintings, often on a small scale.