“- Well, if you want to liberate the butchers' commerce, why are you against my weighing a few bones with the meat?… you are really strange, same as ever!,” plate 472 from Actualités 1857

“ - Well, if you want to liberate the butchers' commerce, why are you against my weighing a few bones with the meat?… you are really strange, same as ever!,” is a lithograph by Honoré Daumier, created in 1857. The print, part of his series “Actualités,” satirizes the hypocrisy of social reforms in 19th-century France. The lithograph shows a butcher, seemingly unconcerned with the customer’s complaints, while a woman holds a basket, her expression portraying a mixture of exasperation and amusement. Daumier’s masterful use of line and shading creates a vivid scene, capturing the energy and humor of daily life in the Parisian marketplace.