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| Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest |
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(zhäN lw  rnst´ m sôny´) (KEY) , 1815–91, French genre and military painter. His study of the Dutch masters was evident in his first Salon-exhibited painting, A Visit to the Burgomaster (1834). His small genre paintings are meticulous as to furnishings and costumes. Among Meissonier’s battle scenes, chiefly of the Napoleonic Wars, are Napoleon I with His Staff (Louvre) and Friedland, 1807 (Metropolitan Mus.). His genre pictures include The Voyagers (Louvre) and The Lute Player (Metropolitan Mus.). | 1 | | See study by V. C. O. Gréard (tr. 1897). | 2 |
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