- Comment, Madeleine, avez-vous accepté un morceau pareil?.... - Madame, le boucher m'a dit comme ça que le commerce de la boucherie allait être libre et que c'est pourquoi qu'y commençait par prendre la liberté de m'donner c'morceau-là!......
- Comment, Madeleine, avez-vous accepté un morceau pareil?.... - Madame, le boucher m'a dit comme ça que le commerce de la boucherie allait être libre et que c'est pourquoi qu'y commençait par prendre la liberté de m'donner c'morceau-là!......
Title (alt.):
- Madeleine, how could you have accepted a piece of meat like this?.... - Madame, the butcher told me that the meat trade will be free, and that is why he began by taking the liberty of giving me this piece!....... Charivari
Description:
A woman asks her maid how she could have accepted a piece of meat of such poor quality from the butcher's shop. On February 24, 1858 a new law ended a monopoly from which some 500 meat stalls and butcheries in Paris had benefited for many years, giving way to free enterprise. Even the scales, manipulated by the butchers in a rather creative way, were suddenly standardized under a governmental system of control. This change, effecting everyday life, motivated Daumier to produce 11 lithographs (DR 3010-3021) as well as a number of drawings and paintings, covering the subject.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, November 30, 1857.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
