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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier: Four Figural Studies   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier  (1815–1891)  wikidata:Q354786 q:cs:Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
 
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
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Birth name: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Description French sculptor, painter, politician and illustrator
Date of birth/death 21 February 1815 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lyon Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q354786
Title
Four Figural Studies
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English: Meissionier was a self-taught artist who trained by studying the Dutch 17th-century masters in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Subsequently, he specialized in meticulously rendered genre scenes showing figures in historical costumes ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th century. Here, he shows four figures in 16th-century dress.
Date Unknown date
Medium ink on paper with traces of an under drawing in pencil
Dimensions height: 12 cm (4.7 in); width: 11.4 cm (4.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.07U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,11.43U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.2802
Place of creation France
Object history
  • Paul Prouté SA, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Joseph F. McCrindle (1923-2008), New York, July 19, 1985, by purchase, #A1503
  • Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, New York, 2008, by bequest
  • 2009: given to Walters Art Museum
Exhibition history Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010.
Credit line Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009
Inscriptions Signed with artist's monogram: EM (conjoined)
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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