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L'Amour et sa mère

L'Amour et sa mère

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) L'Amour et sa mère (Cupid and his Mother), 1853 Lithograph Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.148

Daumier often depicted the contrast between the on-stage and off-stage realities of actors’ lives. Here a typical stage mom seems completely unaware of how unattractive, and probably untalented, her little angel is.

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