This Year, Venuses Again... Always Venuses!
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This Year, Venuses Again... Always Venuses! (1864) - Honoré Daumier
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This Year, Venuses Again... Always Venuses! (1864) is an engraving by Honoré Daumier made at the Paris Salon of 1864 first published in Le Charivari in a series of ten plates entitled Croquis pris au Salon. The engraving is a commentary on the many Venuses at the Paris Salons.
The caption reads:
- « — Cette année encore des Vénus... toujours des Vénus !... comme s'il y avait des femmes faites comme ça!
- Sketches From the Picture Gallery by Daumier - 'This year again,,, The Venus... always The Venus and nothing but The Venus... as if there were any women with such figures'
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