1867
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Hi! hi! ... Il m'a léché le beurre de ma tartine is a 1867 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s lithograph shows two cartoon faces in close-up. The small one looks worried, mouth open. The big one has a spiked helmet and a mean grin. Daumier used lithography to mock politics in the 1860s. The print’s title jokes about butter licked off bread—code for German states losing power. The scratchy lines make it feel like a rough sketch. It feels like a sharp political cartoon.
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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