Discover watercolorist, sculptor, etcher Ernest Meissonier

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This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest
Meissonnier, Jean Louis Ernest

Monogram: EM

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Qualifications: watercolorist, sculptor, etcher, illustrator, miniaturist painter, lithographer, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: French

Born: Lyon 1815-02-21

Deceased: Paris 1891-01-31

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: vader van Jean Charles Meissonier en zwager van Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil

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25 hits in RKDimages as artist
14 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Cogniet, Léon
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Benoit, Léon Alfred
Blanc, Paul-Emile
Detaille, Edouard
Kate, Herman ten
Meissonier, Charles
Miola, Camillo
Moutte, Jean Joseph Marie Alphonse
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon
Gravelot, Hubert François
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste
Metsu, Gabriel
Borch, Gerard ter (II)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Ehrentraut, Julius

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), genre, landscape (genre), military genre, animal painting (genre), portrait

Prijzen

Légion d'honneur
Meissonier werd in 1846 geridderd tot het erelegioen

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Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 14 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 24 (1930), p. 347 (as: Meissonier, Ernest (Jean Louis E.))
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 7, p. 311-312 (as: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest)
Busse 1977 , p. 834 (as: Meissonier (Meissonnier), Jean Louis Ernest)
Wouters 1977 , p. 118
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 205 (as: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest (Ernest))
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 9, p. 451-452 (as: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest)
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 6, p. 705 (as: Meissonier, Ernest (Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest))
Rosen 2010 , p. 161-169 en passim
Prat 2011 , p. 430-438

Anoniem, 'Meissonier', Kunstkronijk NS18 (1877), p. 29-30
A. Pingeot et al., La Sculpture Française au XIXe Siècle, Parijs 1986
M.J. Gotlieb, The plight of emulation: Enest Meissonier and French Salon painting, Princeton 1996
M.C. Montgomery, 'The modernisation of the Salon of the Société Nationale. Creating a sympathetic exhibition venue ', Apollo 159 (2003), p. 14, 15, 16
A. Ouwerkerk, Tussen kunst en publiek.Een beeld van de Kunstkritiek in Nederland in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw, Leiden 2003, p. 175 en passim
L. Widerkehr e.a. (red.), cat. tent. Le temps de la peinture. Lyon 1800-1914, Lyon (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) 2007, passim
M. Jonkman, E. Geudeker, Mythen van het atelier. Werkplaats en schilderpraktijk van de negentiende-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstenaar, Zwolle 2010, p. 145 en passim

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Archive location: archief Firma E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.
Project: Dreaming of Holland
Gerson Digital : France (Nachwirkung)

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