Meissonier, Ernest
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Meissonier, Ernest (1815–91). French painter, illustrator, and sculptor. He was immensely successful with his small-format, nigglingly detailed historical paintings and historical
genre pieces (particularly scenes in
Three Musketeers vein or from the Napoleonic campaigns) and from the 1840s he received the highest official honours, including the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1889—he was the first painter to win this award. Astonishingly conceited as well as mean-spirited, he cultivated a huge white beard and liked to be photographed or painted in attitudes of fiercely profound thought, as in his self-portrait of 1889 in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. He did his best work when he was at his least pretentious. His landscapes are attractive descriptive exercises and his
Rue de la Mortellerie (1848, Mus. d'Orsay), which shows a corpse-strewn Paris street during the revolutionary events of 1848, has genuine pathos and impressed
Delacroix. There are large collections of Meissonier's work in the Musée d'Orsay and in the Wallace Collection, London.
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