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The Country Visitor’s Pleasures

The Country Visitor’s Pleasures
The Country Visitor’s Pleasures is a lithograph by the 19th-century artist Honoré Daumier. The piece is a caricature, making fun of the upper-class society that was often Daumier’s target. The artist’s drawing style is intentionally quick and spontaneous. This print may have been created for the magazine La Caricature, to which Daumier was a frequent contributor.
Giraudon/Art Resource, NY
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Caricature; Daumier, Honoré
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