Jean-Louis-Ernest MeissonierFrench, 1815–1891Le liseur
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Musée du Louvre
Paris, France
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- RF 1432
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- Image: Musée du Louvre — © 2018 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Mathieu Rabeau
Meanwhile, in the life of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
The whole life1856 · Award
Officer of the Legion of Honour
1857
Nine works at the Salon of 1857
His triumph is sustained: Meissonier shows nine pictures and drawings, among them Young Man of the Time of the Regency, The Painter, The Shoeing Smith, The Musician and A Reading at Diderot’s. With Gérôme and Cabanel he counts as one of the three most successful artists of the Second Empire.
summer 1859
A government commission for scenes of the Italian campaign
In the summer of 1859, when Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II set out to oust the Habsburgs from northern Italy, Meissonier receives a government commission to illustrate scenes from the campaign. Napoleon III attached him to the imperial staff, and the painter accompanied the emperor in Italy.
