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“- Oysters at 25 sous a dozen, horrible!... Even if you gave me 100 sous to eat half a dozen, I would not allow myself such an expense,” plate 18 from Actualités
1866
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.9 × 20.6 cm (9 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 27.2 cm (14 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.985
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. “- Oysters at 25 sous a dozen, horrible!... Even if you gave me 100 sous to eat half a dozen, I would not allow myself such an expense,” plate 18 from Actualités. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
“- Oysters at 25 sous a dozen, horrible!... Even if you gave me 100 sous to eat half a dozen, I would not allow myself such an expense,” plate 18 from Actualités — Honoré Daumier. 1866.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 23.9 × 20.6 cm (9 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 27.2 cm (14 1/16 × 10 3/4 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.