In the history of art, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier as French painter and sculptor (1815-1891).
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was born at Lyon in 1815. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Lycée Charlemagne.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as sculptor, painter and politician.
His recorded movement is academic art.
Among his best-known works are 1814, La Campagne de France, Antibes. La promenade à cheval and Au cabaret. Reître et lévrier. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1889), Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1880), Commander of the Legion of Honour (1867) and Officer of the Legion of Honour (1856).
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier died in 1891, aged 76. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour — 1889
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour — 1880
- Commander of the Legion of Honour — 1867
- Officer of the Legion of Honour — 1856
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1846
- Notable work: 1814, La Campagne de France
- Notable work: Antibes. La promenade à cheval
- Notable work: Au cabaret. Reître et lévrier
- Movement: academic art
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