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France, Honoré Daumier, a powerful uniface cast bronze medallion by Julien-Prosper Legastelois, undated, 140mm. Extremely fine, rare (£70-80)

Honore Daumier (1808-1879), French painter, sculptor, and caricaturist. On of the most important and powerful caricaturists of the 19th century, his themes contained a large element of social protest, and a caricature of Louis Philippe led to a sentence of six m months imprisonment.