1866
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Un moment ... votre vache n'a pas eu l'epizoodie? ... is a 1866 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows two men arguing near a cow. One man points to his ear, the other looks confused. The cow stands still, chewing hay. Daumier made fun of France’s leaders in his art. This print jokes about a cow disease scare. It feels like a political cartoon you’d see today. It’s a great example of lithography—printing with greasy ink on stone.
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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