"- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857, Honoré-Victorin Daumier

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"- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857, Honoré-Victorin Daumier
"- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857 — Honoré-Victorin Daumier1857

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  1. The international studio · John Lane

    at the Ecole of the water-colors of Gavarni, the sepias of Henri Monnier and the paintings, then quite unknown, of Daumier, it caused a scandal. Fortunately protestation changed into apotheosis and the very dignitaries who had at first objected, won by the sumptuousness of the works, put Daumier into the Louvre. M. Dayot recounts this episode in his preface for the catalogue of the Ville-I’Eveque exhibit, with the hint to the authorities that since 1888 they have gained the reputation for “enlightened eclecticism.” M. Dayot’s opinion of what such an
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Honoré-Victorin Daumier made "- Can you see the comet?... just there, at the tip of my finger ... don't lose sight of my finger tip!," plate 5 from La Comète De 1857, and made these too.

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