Cardinal playing the cello, oil on panel by François Brunery (1849-1926).
François Brunery was born in Turin in 1849. He studied in Paris in the studio of Gérôme and Bonnat, and exhibited regularly at the Salons, receiving an honorable mention in 1903.
An anticlerical painter, he depicts clergymen in refined interiors, often engaged in frivolous activities and betraying their taste for luxury and idleness, in the spirit of other painters such as Jehan Georges Vibert or Victor Marais-Milton. His paintings are always executed with finesse, precision and careful staging.
