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“- 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
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 22 × 25.5 cm (8 11/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 27.6 × 35.9 cm (10 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1955.1198
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré 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. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- 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 Daumier. 1858.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 22 × 25.5 cm (8 11/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 27.6 × 35.9 cm (10 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.