1862
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Painters and the bourgeois is a 1862 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows two people sitting in a dim room. One holds a paintbrush over a small canvas on an easel, while the other leans in, watching closely. The walls look old and rough, with a door and window frame visible in the background. The artist focused on the messy, real side of painting—not the polished kind. Notice how the faces are exaggerated, almost like a cartoon, but still feel human. If you like this raw style, check out Realism next.
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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