1859
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Painter Who Had a Painting Refused. is a 1859 by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a man sitting at a table, looking sad. He's surrounded by papers and paintings. The man in the painting had a painting rejected from an exhibition, which is what this scene is about. This painting was published in a magazine called Le Charivari. 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 27, 1859) as plate 8 from the series The Exhibition of 1859.
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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