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1807, Friedland
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Title:1807, Friedland
Artist:Ernest Meissonier (French, Lyons 1815–1891 Paris)
Date:ca. 1861–75
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:53 1/2 x 95 1/2 in. (135.9 x 242.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Hilton, 1887
Object Number:87.20.1
Meissonier was celebrated for historical set pieces that evoke Dutch seventeenth-century genre paintings through their meticulous brushwork and modest scale. He exhibited his first picture in this vein at the Salon of 1834. The present work, however, reflects his extended commitment to a grand theme that underpinned the French imagination for much of the nineteenth century: the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821). Meissonier’s largest and most ambitious painting, it evokes one of Napoleon’s greatest victories, which he won against Russian forces at Friedland (formerly East Prussia, now Kaliningrad) on June 14, 1807. He is shown mounted on a white charger, accompanied by his chief of staff and marshals, identified as Bessières, Duroc, Berthier, and Nansouty, and presiding over a review of triumphant cavalry known as cuirassiers (Ballu 1875). As early as 1860, Meissonier conceived the picture as the second in
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Jean-Louis-Ernest MEISSONIER
Lyon 1815 - Paris 1891
Biography
‘The incontestible master of our epoch’, as Eugène Delacroix described him, gives some indication of the esteem in which Ernest Meisonnier was held by his contemporaries, critics and the public. Enjoying a career of more than fifty years, he was one of the most famous painters of the 19th century, renowned both in France and abroad. Largely self-taught as an artist, he began his career as a designer of wood engravings for book illustrations. Although he exhibited paintings regularly at the Salon from 1834 onwards, winning several medals in later years, Meissonier’s first taste of international fame came at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, when his painting of A Brawl was bought by Napoleon III as a present for Prince Albert of England. Much of his work was on a very small and intimate scale, and reveal the influence of the Dutch genre painters of the 17th century that he had studied as a young apprentice. His subject matter included scenes of 17th and 18th century life, as well as more contemporary depictions of men at leisure, all painted on small panels and executed with a meticulous attention to detail.
From the late 1840’s onwards Meissonier also devoted much of his time to military subjects, basin
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Ernest Meissonier
French cougar (1815–1891)
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier | |
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Ernest Meissonier | |
| Born | (1815-02-21)21 Feb 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 |
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