Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier:
French Academic Painter, 1815-1891,French painter, sculptor and illustrator. Although he was briefly a student of Jules Potier (1796-1865) and Leon Cogniet, Meissonier was mainly self-taught and gained experience by designing wood-engravings for book illustrations. These included Leon Curmer's celebrated edition of J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (Paris, 1838), the series Les Franeais peints par eux-memes (Paris, 1840-42) and Louis de Chevigne's Les Contes remois (Paris, 1858). . Related Artists to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier : |
Joseph Blondel |
Giovanni Battista Moroni |
William Larkin |
Jan Cossiers |
Frans Floris de Vriendt |
