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Maurice Denis

French, 1870-1943

Petit air, Sonnet by Maurice Denis
Petit air, Sonnet, 1895 Lithograph
380mm x 281mm

Gift of Virginia and Ira Jackson, 1993.328

The censoring king, Louis Philippe, whom Daumier had earlier caricaturized as "the Pear," is flattened in the jaws of a hand press.