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The Laundress, 186[3?]. Oil on oak.
Oil on oak · 19 1/4 x 13 in. (48.9 x 33 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Laundress
- Artist
- Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
- Date
- 186[3?]
- Medium
- Oil on oak
- Dimensions
- 19 1/4 x 13 in. (48.9 x 33 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Lillie P. Bliss, 1931
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1808–1879
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




