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

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

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

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

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- 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

Le Désespoir des Bouchers, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, November 21, 1857

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

“- 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

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

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

Scêne d'Hippophagie, from Croquis Dramatiques, published in Le Charivari, January 10, 1857

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

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

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Le Désespoir des Bouchers, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, November 21, 1857

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet