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Inside a Butcher's Shop in Paris. “Come on my dear..... I know it is tough to sell our beef as cheap as that..... but that's no reason to weep like a calf!,” plate 75 from Actualités
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 20 × 26.1 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 24.5 cm (10 3/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1953.567
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. Inside a Butcher's Shop in Paris. “Come on my dear..... I know it is tough to sell our beef as cheap as that..... but that's no reason to weep like a calf!,” plate 75 from Actualités. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Inside a Butcher's Shop in Paris. “Come on my dear..... I know it is tough to sell our beef as cheap as that..... but that's no reason to weep like a calf!,” plate 75 from Actualités — Honoré Daumier. 1851.
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 20 × 26.1 cm (7 7/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 24.5 cm (10 3/8 × 9 11/16 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.