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Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier
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Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier
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French Romantic painter, sculptor, printmaker and colonel
Born 2/21/1815 - Died 1891
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Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier - Encyclopedia
JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER (1815-1891), French painter, was born at Lyons on the 21st of February 1815. From his schooldays he showed a taste for painting, to which some early sketches, dated 1823, bear witness. After being placed with a druggist, he obtained leave from his parents to become an artist, and, owing to the recommendation of a painter named Potier, himself a second class Prix de Rome, he was admitted to Leon Cogniet's studio. He paid short visits to Rome and to Switzerland, and exhibited in the Salon of 1831 a picture then called "Les Bourgeois Flamands" ("Dutch Burghers"), but also known as "The Visit to the Burgomaster," subsequently purchased by Sir Richard Wallace, in whose collection (at Hertford House, London) it is, with fifteen other examples of this painter. It was the first attempt in France in the particular genre which was destined to make Meissonier famous: microscopic painting - miniature in oils. Work
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Ernest Meissonier
French painter (1815–1891)
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier | |
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Ernest Meissonier | |
| Born | (1815-02-21)21 February 1815 Lyon, France |
| Died | 31 January 1891(1891-01-31) (aged 75) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Painting, Sculpture |
| Movement | Academic art |
| Spouse | Emma Steinhel |
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (French:[ʒɑ̃lwiɛʁnɛstmɛsɔnje]; 21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a French academic painter and sculptor. He became famous for his depictions of Napoleon and his militarysieges and manoeuvres in paintings acclaimed both for the artist's mastery of fine detail and his assiduous craftsmanship. The English art critic John Ruskin examined his work at length under a magnifying glass, "marvelling at Meissonier's manual dexterity and eye for fascinating minutiae." Meissonier enjoyed great success in his lifetime, becoming, with Gérôme and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of th