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“- Madeleine, how could you ever accept a piece of meat like this one? - Madame, the butcher told me that the meat commerce will be free, therefore he took the liberty of giving me this piece,” plate 463 from Actualités
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.5 × 25.9 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 36 cm (10 3/4 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1955.1194
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Madeleine, how could you ever accept a piece of meat like this one? - Madame, the butcher told me that the meat commerce will be free, therefore he took the liberty of giving me this piece,” plate 463 from Actualités. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Madeleine, how could you ever accept a piece of meat like this one? - Madame, the butcher told me that the meat commerce will be free, therefore he took the liberty of giving me this piece,” plate 463 from Actualités — Honoré Daumier. 1857.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 25.9 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 36 cm (10 3/4 × 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.