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The Good Bourgeois, Plate 23: "But yes, my dear, I assure you that this gentleman is drawing a landscape...is it not so, sir, that you are drawing a landscape?" (Les bons bourgeios, planche 23: Mais si, ma femme...monsieur dessine un paysage..), 1846. In 19th-century France, everyone was a landscape painter, according to Daumier’s caricature published in Le Charivari.