Art, literature & history
“- 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
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21 × 24.6 cm (8 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 27.3 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1955.1197
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré 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. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- 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 Daumier. 1857.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 21 × 24.6 cm (8 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 27.3 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 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.