Black and white lithograph: a thin caped figure bends and points at the palm of a robed man in a plumed hat who holds a sword.

The Emperor of Morocco Consulting the Magician Desbarolles, Daumier Lithograph

A lithograph in black ink on white paper shows a thin, long-legged figure in a cape bending toward a robed man in a wide plumed hat who holds a sword. The hooked-palm gesture and caricatured faces give the scene a comic tone, with a caption printed below.

Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Date: 1859
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1338 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1859).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund

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