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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
French Academic Painter, 1815-1891,French painter, sculptor and illustrator. Although he was briefly a student of Jules Potier (1796-1865) and Leon Cogniet, Meissonier was mainly self-taught and gained experience by designing wood-engravings for book illustrations. These included Leon Curmer's celebrated edition of J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (Paris, 1838), the series Les Franeais peints par eux-memes (Paris, 1840-42) and Louis de Chevigne's Les Contes remois (Paris, 1858).
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Painting ID:: 59882
Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino
Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino, 1863.
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Painting ID:: 59883
A Game of Piquet,
A Game of Piquet,
1861.
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Painting ID:: 59884
Relief after the Battle
Relief after the Battle
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Painting ID:: 59885
Study of a horse
Study of a horse,
jumping at a gallop, n.d.
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Painting ID:: 59886
Self portrait
Self-portrait, oil sketch,
ca. 1865.
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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
French Academic Painter, 1815-1891,French painter, sculptor and illustrator. Although he was briefly a student of Jules Potier (1796-1865) and Leon Cogniet, Meissonier was mainly self-taught and gained experience by designing wood-engravings for book illustrations. These included Leon Curmer's celebrated edition of J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (Paris, 1838), the series Les Franeais peints par eux-memes (Paris, 1840-42) and Louis de Chevigne's Les Contes remois (Paris, 1858).
. Related Artists to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier: | John Seymour Lucas | ulrica fredrica pasch | Gerhard ter Borch | Francisco de Goya | anthonis van dyck |
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