

Artwork details
- Date:
- 1858
- Medium:
- paper, lithography
- Dimensions:
- 843 × 630 px
- Museum record:
- View original



“- Mister butcher, I wish you a happy and healthy New Year… - What? This is going to be a nice one, this 1858… every grocer around the corner will be able to sell my mutton!…,” plate 481 from Actualités

“- Well, if you want to liberate the butchers' commerce, why are you against my weighing a few bones with the meat?… you are really strange, same as ever!,” plate 472 from Actualités

Eh! Ben ... puisque vous voulez qu' les bouchers ...

Tristesse des bouchers de Paris ...

The Despair of the Butcher. “- Just imagine: Anybody can establish himself as a butcher! Ah! There are moments when I feel like taking my meat chopper and cutting myself in two halves like a simple veal,” plate 458 from Actualités

“- I would have so much loved to make him a butcher too... now I am forced to make him a lawyer,” plate 467 from Actualités