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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
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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, French, 1808-1879 · 1857 · Lithograph in black on buff wove paper, with letterpress verso

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Credit lineThe 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. 1857. Honoré Victorin Daumier, French, 1808-1879. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Charles H. Worcester. CC0.
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