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    • Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834, August and September 1834
    Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
    Lithography

    Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in. (36.4 x 55.1 cm); image: 11 1/4 x 17 3/8 in. (28.6 x 44.1 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1920 (20.23)

    This lithograph, published in Association Mensuelle, illustrates an event that occurred during the riots of April 1834, when government troops opened fire on the inhabitants of a building.

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  • Mayor, A. Hyatt. "A Bequest of Prints by Callot and Daumier." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 17, no. 1 (Summer, 1958)
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  • Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834, August and September 1834
    Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
    Lithography

    Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 11/16 in. (36.4 x 55.1 cm); image: 11 1/4 x 17 3/8 in. (28.6 x 44.1 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1920 (20.23)