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The Despair of the Butcher. “- Just imagine: Anybody can establish himself as a butcher! Ah! There are moments when I feel like taking my meat chopper and cutting myself in two halves like a simple veal,” plate 458 from Actualités Wall Art
ART BY: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
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About this artwork
The Despair of the Butcher. “- Just imagine: Anybody can establish himself as a butcher! Ah! There are moments when I feel like taking my meat chopper and cutting myself in two halves like a simple veal,” plate 458 from Actualités is a lithograph in black on buff wove paper, with letterpress verso by Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808–1879), dated 1857. The artist is catalogued as French. The source scan comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 2129 px (2.8 MB). It is filed under Prints, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 499 works by Honoré-Victorin Daumier, a French artist.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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The Despair of the Butcher. “- Just imagine: Anybody can establish himself as a butcher! Ah! There are moments when I feel like taking my meat chopper and cutting myself in two halves like a simple veal,” plate 458 from Actualités is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
