Jean-Louis-Ernest MeissonierFrance, 1815–1891La Confidence
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Château de Compiègne
Compiègne, France
Le propriétaire est connu ; on ignore si l’œuvre est exposée aujourd’hui.
- Dans cet état depuis
- Source
- Le musée
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- Numéro d’inventaire
- C 53 D 48 ; RF 1864
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- Château de Compiègne
- Image : Château de Compiègne — © Réunion des musées nationaux - utilisation soumise à autorisation; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Pendant ce temps, chez Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
La vie entière1856 · Distinction
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.
