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Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier BiographyFrench Romantic painter, printmaker, sculptor & colonelborn 21 February 1815 - died 1891 Student of: Léon
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MEISSONIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST (1815—1891), French painter, was born at Lyons on the 21st of February 1815. From his schooldays the artist showed a taste for painting, to which some early sketches, dated 1823, bear witness. After being placed with a druggist, the classicist obtained leave from his parents to become an artist, and, owing to the recommendation of a painter named [Jules] Potier, himself a second class Prix de Rome, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier 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 Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier famous microscopic painting—miniature in oils. Working hard for daily bread at illustrations for the publishers — Curmer, Hetze and Duboclier — the painter also exhibited at the Salon of 1836 the Chess Player and the Errand Boy. After some not very happy attempts at religious painting, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier returned, under the influence of Chenavard, to the class of work he was born to excel in, and exhibited with much success the Game of Chess (1841), the Young Man playing the Cello (1842), The Painter in his Studio (1843), The Guard Room, the Young Man looking at Drawings, the Game of Piquet (1845), and the Game of Bowls — Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier paintings which show the finish and certainty of his technique, and assured his success. After his Soldiers (1848) the classicist began A Day in June, which was never finished, and exhibited A Smoker (1849) and Bravos (Les Bravi, 5852). In 1855 Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier touched the highest mark of his achievement with The Gamblers and The Quarrel (La Rixe), which was presented by Napoleon III, to the English Court. His triumph was sustained at the Salon of 1857, when Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier exhibited nine paintings, and drawings; among them the Young Man of the Time of the Regency, The Painter, The Shoeing Smith, The Musician, and A Reading at Diderot’s. To the Salon of 1861 Meissonier sent The Emperor at Solferino, A Shoeing Smith, A Musician, A Painter, and M. Louis Fould; to that of 1864 another version of The Emperor at Solferino, and 1814. Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier subsequently exhibited A Gamblers’ Quarrel (1865), and Desaix and the Army of the Rhine (1867). Meissonier worked with elaborate care and a scrupulous observation of nature. Some of Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier paintings, as for instance his 1807, remained ten years in course of execution. To the great Exhibition of 1878 the classicist contributed sixteen pictures: the portrait of Alexandre Dumas which had been seen at the Salon of 1877, Cuirassiers of 1805, A Venetian Painter, Moreau and his Staff before Hobenlinden, a Portrait of a Lady the Road to La Salice, The Two Friends, The Outpost of the Grand Guard, A Scout, and Dictating his Memoirs. Thenceforward he exhibited less in the Salons, and sent Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier painting to smaller exhibitions. Being chosen president of the Great National Exhibition in 1883, the painter was represented there by such Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier paintings as The Pioneer, The Army of the Rhine, The Arrival of the Guests, and Saint Mark. On the 24th of May 1884 an exhibition was opened at the Petit Gallery of collected Meissonier paintings, including 146 examples. |
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| As president of the jury on painting at the Exhibition of 1889 the romantic classicist contributed some new pictures. In the following year the New Salon was formed (the National Society of Fine Art), and he was-president. Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier exhibited there in 1890 his picture 1807; a1so in 1891, shortly after his death, his Barricade was displayed there. A less well-known class of work than Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier painting is a series of etchings: The Last Supper, The Skill of Vuillaume the Lute Player, The Little Smoker, The Old Smoker, the Preparations for a Duel, Anglers, Troopers,’ The Reporting Sergeant, and Polichinelle, in the Hertford House collection. Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier also tried lithography, but the prints are now scarcely to be found. |
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| Of all the artists of the century. Meissonier was one of the most fortunate in the matter of payments. His Cuirassiers, now in the late duc d’Aumale’s collection at Chantilly, was bought from the artist for £10,000 sold at Brussels for £11,000, and finally resold for £16,000 Besides his genre portraits, Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier painted some others: those of Doctor Lefevre, of Chenavard, of Vanderbilt,’ of Doctor Guyon, and of Stanford. The artist also collaborated with the painter Français in a picture of The Park at St Cloud. | |||||||
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In 1838 he married the sister of M. Steinbeil, a painter. Meissonier was attached by Napoleon III to the imperial staff, and accompanied him during the campaign in Italy and at the beginning of the war in 1870. During the siege of Paris in 1871 Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier was colonel of a marching regiment. In 1840 he was awarded a third-class medal, a second-class medal in 1841 first-class medals in 1843 and 1844 and medals of honour at the great exhibitions. In 1846 the romantic classicist was appointed knight of the Legion of Honour and promoted to the higher grades in 1856, 1867 (June 29), and 1880 (July 12), receiving the Grand Cross in 1889 (Oct. 29). He nevertheless cherished certain ambitions which remained unfulfilled. Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier hoped to become a professor at the École des Beaux Art, but the appointment he desired was never given to him. | ||||||
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