- Allons, v'là encore le mouton qui a haussé...... les bouchers eux-mêmes ne peuvent plus y atteindre!...
Title (alt.):
- Now even mutton is rising skyhigh...... the butchers themselves can no longer reach it!.... Charivari
Description:
A shopkeeper is searching for another piece of mutton. The butcher in this print (without the housewife) has a similarity to Daumier's painting "The Butcher" (presently in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard). BUTCHERS. 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. MESSIEURS LES BOUCHERS, a series of 3 numbered prints which appeared in the CHARIVARI in 1858.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 14, 1858.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
