Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, was born on the 21 February 1815 in Lyon, France and died on the 31 January 1891 at the age of 75 in Paris, France. He was a French painter and sculpture, most famous for his armies and military themes. Meissonier had great success in his life because of his mastery in fine detail. He was a painter and sculpture during the Realism time. He had went to Rome and Switzerland. There, he had exhibited in the salon of 1831. on painting that was there is called 'Les Bourgeois Flamands'.

Some of his works:



1814. Campagne de France (Napoleon and his staff returning from Soissons after the Battle of Laon), 1864 (Musée d'Orsay)



In June 1868 Meissonier arrived in Antibes - "It is delightful to sun oneself in the brilliant light of the South," he wrote


Bibliography:

• en.wikipedia/wiki/Jean_Louis_Ernest_meissonier , 22 February 2013 , 18:05pm