- Comment..... vous osez dire que cette viande-là n'est pas de la première catégorie!!..... mais des cuisinières de la première catégorie..., où y en a t'y?...... n'y en a pas!......
- Comment..... vous osez dire que cette viande-là n'est pas de la première catégorie!!..... mais des cuisinières de la première catégorie..., où y en a t'y?...... n'y en a pas!......
Title (alt.):
- What..... you dare say that this meat is not of the highest quality!!..... but high quality cooks..., where are they?...... there are none!....... Charivari
Description:
A butcher criticizes a woman after she complains that the meat he is trying to sell her is not top quality. 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, January 27, 1858.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
