View of a studio the final week before the exhibition, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, April 1, 1864

Honoré Daumier French
 Printer Destouches French
 Publisher Aaron Martinet French

Not on view

- If they are not pleased with this Venus, they are really difficult. We are sparing neither color nor brushwork....
provided that it dries, dear God!
- What does it matter if it's not dry, it's Venus rising from the sea!

View of a studio the final week before the exhibition, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, April 1, 1864, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

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