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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

[French Academic Painter, 1815-1891]

• Relationships: Studied under Leon Cogniet.
Meissonier's students included Édouard Détaille and Daniel Ridgway Knight.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in History Painting.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
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2 works by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Information (General Desaix and the Peasant), 1867

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
3 works by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A Musketeer, 1870
Reading a Letter, 1852

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Barricade, rue de la Mortellerie, June 1848 (Memory of Civil War)

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
4 works by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier online

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Mounted Hussar, wax model, ca.1866-75

Musée d'Orsay, Paris   NEW!
Commentary on The Traveller

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
Many works by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Horseman in a Storm, ca.1878

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier at the National Gallery, London, UK
A Man in Black smoking a Pipe

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
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4 paintings online

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
A Painter
On a Terrace


Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  
Study of a horse

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  
Huzaar

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Seated Boy with a Book, drawing, 1850s

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
2 works online; You must type "meissonier" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil and Wife Museum, Egypt

National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Innocents and Card Sharpers (A Game of Piquet), 1861

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Seine at Poissy

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
16 paintings online

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
1814

 
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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Art Renewal Center
Chessplayers

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Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

The Athenaeum  
2 works online

 
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2 works online when last checked

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

  
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier: Napoleon on Campaign in 1814





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Self Portrait
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Barricade in the Rue de la Mortellerie
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Napoleon on Campaign in 1814, 1864
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