1842
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Shepherds of Virgil is a 1842 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows three older men in rough clothes sitting on a log, one holding a pipe, another a stick. Their faces look tired but thoughtful, like they’re sharing a quiet moment. Daumier made this for a Paris newspaper called *Le Charivari*. Back then, artists often turned old stories into funny or sharp pictures for magazines. This one pokes fun at fancy ancient scenes by putting them in rags. It’s in the Cleveland Museum of Art if you want to see the real print.
This print was published in Le Charivari (December 31, 1842) as plate 48 from the series Ancient History .
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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