Le Charcutier. L'action du feu sur le physique du Charcutier détermine une maigreur extrême ou produit un embonpoint excessif quand au moral le charcutier qui s'intitule souvent Chaircuitier, est un peu stationnaire, du reste, il est Joli garçon (Comme vous voyez) et fait rapidement fortune.

Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1836

Caricature of a butcher. For this series, Daumier depicted various classes of Francais. 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 create a series on the subject.