# Guizot or the Bore

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DAUMIER, Honoré](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Painted clay, height 22 cm

## Commentary

The busts of the Parliamentarians was commissioned in 1832 by Charles Philipon, the director of La Caricature, and executed during actual sittings of the Chambre des Députés. These busts mark a total break with the tradition of the neoclassical portrait.Helped by acute powers of observation and a remarkably expressive talent as a draughtsman and modeller, Daumier tried to reveal the deep truth of his models through an uncompromising image enhanced by exaggeration and polychromy..

## Related artworks

- [A Disgruntled Litigant](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/a-disgruntled-litigant-r18e842c96a3b60>)
- [Burden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/burden-rf24b868ca8d896>)
- [Charles Philipon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/charles-philipon-r4fdf299265441d>)
- [Charles Philipon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/charles-philipon-r623da8d3c41743>)
- [Crispin and Scapin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/crispin-and-scapin-r6fb68672f004c2>)
- [Don Quixote and Sancho Panza](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/don-quixote-and-sancho-panza-r00e9bbe76c5cc6>)
- [Family on the Barricades in 1848](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/family-on-the-barricades-in-1848-rdbb40aa530505b>)
- [Intermission at the Comédie Française](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/intermission-at-the-comdie-franaise-r720b653f3f940b>)
- [Jean-Auguste Chevandier de Valdrome, Parliamentarian \(The Fool\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/jean-auguste-chevandier-de-valdrome-parliamentarian-the-fool-rba838c0cf406e4>)
- [Laundress on the Quai d&#39;Anjou](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/laundress-on-the-quai-danjou-rb2409ace698f4f>)
- [Laurent Cunin, Politician \(The Angry Man\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/laurent-cunin-politician-the-angry-man-r9aa2166aa73284>)
- [Load \(Washerwoman\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/daumier-honor-r948fc132359d93/load-washerwoman-r1fdd0209c59950>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)