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The Out-Post, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, c. 1880
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, portraitJean-Louis-Ernest MeissonierFrench, 1815–1891

The Out-Post

c. 1880 · Painting

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Not on view at present

Where is “The Out-Post” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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Accession number
1901.446

What it shows

SoldiersWeaponsUniformsSkyNatureLandscapeHorseHelmetGunCloudsShrubsAnimal

In the catalog

PaintingsOilFrench paintingImpressionism19th centuryFrance

Sources

In the life of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

The whole life

  1. 1878

    Sixteen pictures at the great exhibition of 1878

    For the great exhibition of 1878 he sends sixteen pictures, among them the portrait of Alexandre Dumas fils (seen at the Salon of 1877), Cuirassiers of 1805 and Moreau and his Staff before Hohenlinden. From then on Meissonier exhibits less in the Salons and sends his work to smaller exhibitions.

  2. 1878–1879

    Post: Mayor of Poissy

  3. 1880 · Award

    Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour

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La Barricade, dit aussi Souvenir de guerre civile. Juin1848, Meissonier, Ernest, Milieu du XIXe siècle (vers 1850 - 1851)

La Barricade, dit aussi Souvenir de guerre civile. Juin1848

mid 19th century (c. 1850–1851) · Musée du Louvre

Jeune homme travaillant, dit aussi Jeune homme écrivant, Meissonier, Ernest, 3e quart du XIXe siècle (1852)

Jeune homme travaillant, dit aussi Jeune homme écrivant

third quarter of the 19th century (1852) · Musée du Louvre

Horseman in a Storm, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, model c. 1878, cast after 1894

Horseman in a Storm

model c. 1878, cast after 1894 · National Gallery of Art

A Painter, Ernest Meissonier, 1855

A Painter

1855 · The Cleveland Museum of Art

On a Terrace, Ernest Meissonier, 1867

On a Terrace

1867 · The Cleveland Museum of Art

Les Amateurs, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Les Amateurs

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Scène de cabaret, Meissonier, Ernest

Scène de cabaret

Musée du Louvre

Studien eines Schimmels, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Studien eines Schimmels

Belvedere

On view at Art Institute of Chicago

Museum page
The Bedroom, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Vincent van Gogh

The Bedroom, 1889

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, Georges Seurat, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

The Basket of Apples, Paul Cézanne, c. 1893

Paul Cézanne

The Basket of Apples, c. 1893

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), Claude Monet, 1890–91

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Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

American Gothic, Grant Wood, 1930

Grant Wood

American Gothic, 1930

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, 1942

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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

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Rembrandt van Rijn

Christ before Pilate: Large Plate, 1636

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

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Francisco de Goya

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