1849
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Jean Jacques Fayet, Bishop of Orléans is a 1849 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a bishop sitting in a chair. He looks serious and formal. The bishop was meant to be part of a series called The Representatives Represented, but it was never published, which makes it a bit rare. The artist likely chose this subject to comment on the people in power at the time. This was a common theme in his work. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879).
This rare print was intended for the series The Representatives Represented but was never published.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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