“- 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

“- 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

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- And your bourgeois - is he for freedom of the butcher's trade?,” plate 464 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- 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

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

J'en aurais fait un boucher..., from "Actualités"

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Comment,...c'est-t'y Dieu possible!..., from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, December 14, 1857

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

M'sieu le boucher..., j'vous la souhaite bonne et heureuse!, from "Actualités"

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

A horsemeat banquet, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 29, 1865

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

Gertrude, we need to have our cow analyzed, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, February 1, 1866

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Arnaud de Vresse

“- I am glad that we are not scientists, otherwise Monsieur would also invite us to taste this camel hump he ordered from Algeria… I'd rather enjoy a meal of veal hump!,” plate 8 from La Sopciété D'acclimatation

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Look! See how his eyes are on the saveloys and the ham.... it seems we like Papa's job?..... my little piglet!,” plate 51 from Moeurs Conjugales

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Le mea culpa du boucher, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, March 19, 1858

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

“- Oysters at 25 sous a dozen, horrible!... Even if you gave me 100 sous to eat half a dozen, I would not allow myself such an expense,” plate 18 from Actualités

Honoré-Victorin Daumier