SENTIMENTS AND PASSIONS 4: This Gentleman, on leaving the Tavern where he has lost his last twenty francs, thinks of Rotschild [sic]; of fillets of St. Cloud; of selling his matress, ... of everything, except... not playing again

People: Daumier, Honoré
Time: 1841
Owner Organization: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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