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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:: 76188 Dimensions and material
Oil on panel, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 in
Date 1862(1862)
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Painting ID:: 80172 Jean-Baptiste de Roll-Montpellier enfant
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Painting ID:: 81675 Friedland, 1807 (1875) Ernest Meissonier
Friedland, 1807 (1861-1875) by Ernest Meissonier oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date ca. 1875(1875)
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Painting ID:: 85640 Friedland
oil on canvas
c. 1875
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Painting ID:: 91384 The Card Players
1872(1872)
Medium oil on canvas
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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: | Jean-Franc Millet | Perov, Vasily | Crane, Walter | Ferdinand Lepie | Cohoon Hannah |
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