Who painted “The Chess players”?

“The Chess players” was painted by Honoré Daumier in 1865. Where to see it: Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.

Realism

What to look for

Realism: Academic art paints the same skill on idealised subjects; Impressionism keeps the modern subjects but breaks the paint into light, quick strokes.

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (26 February 1808 – 10 or 11 February 1879) 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. Wikipedia

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More by Honoré Daumier

“The Third-Class Carriage”, 1868
“The Laundress”, 1863
“Don Quijote and Sancho Panza”, 1868
“The Third-Class Carriage”, 1863
“Ecce homo”, 1851
“The Melodrama”, 1860
“The Emigrants”, 1857
“Crispin and Scapin”, 1864