Victor Orsel

André Jacques Victor Orsel (25 May 1795, Oullins - 1 November 1850, Paris) was a French painter; primarily of religious subjects.

[1] He had three brothers: André-Jacques (1784-1868), who served as Mayor of Oullins and Tarare, Jean (1787-1847), a soldier, and Pierre Jean-Jacques (1791-1858), a writer.

[2] He was successively a student of Pierre Révoil, at the École impériale des beaux-arts de Lyon (1809) and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in Paris.

A friend from Rome, Alphonse Périn, worked with him and Michel Dumas acted as their assistant.

He chose to illustrate the Litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary, divided into sixty paintings.