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.

Self-portrait (date unknown)
Good and Evil (French - Le Bien et le Mal ) , begun in Rome in 1829 and completed in Paris in 1832