1847
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Papa contemplates a likeness of his likeness is a 1847 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a man sitting in a chair, looking at a picture of himself. He's nicely dressed and seems to be thinking deeply. The man in the picture is likely a bourgeois, a middle-class person, which was a common subject in Daumier's work, often portrayed in a humorous or ironic way. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879).
This print was published in Le Charivari (April 14, 1847) as plate 40 from the series The Good Bourgeois.
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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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