OIL ON WOOD PANEL "GENTILHOMME AU TAMBOURG" AFTER ERNEST MEISSONIER

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OIL ON WOOD PANEL "GENTILHOMME AU TAMBOURG" AFTER ERNEST MEISSONIER

Name: OIL ON WOOD PANEL 'GENTILHOMME AU TAMBOURG' AFTER ERNEST MEISSONIER
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: Z859YTGIYR
Price: 380 EUR
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Period 19th century

Style Second Empire style, Napoleon III style

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PAINTING /OIL ON WOODEN PANEL "GENTLEMAN WITH DRUM" WELL FRAMED

19th CENTURY / AFTER ERNEST MEISSONIER
Ernest Meissonier, born February 21, 1815 in Lyon and died January 31, 1891 in Paris (17th arrondissement)1, was a French painter and sculptor, specializing in historical military paintings and genre scenes.
A painter with a keen eye for authentic detail, he was part of the academic movement that predominated in the visual arts during the Second Empire. Covered in honors, he was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and chaired numerous national and international juries.
Although Marcel Proust as a teenager, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson2 considered him their favorite painter, and although he was greatly appreciated by Eugène Delacroix3 and admired by Vincent van Gogh4 , some critics, mainly posthumous, judged his work to lack spontaneity and life. The painter's reputation thus went through a period of purgatory, and we often quote Édouard Manet's ferocious judgment of one of his battle paintings: "Tout est en acier, excepté les cuirasses" ("Everything is steel, except for the breastplates"), or Edgar Degas's sobriquet of "giant of dwarfs "5,6,7 : by which he meant that Meissonier was the most notable of painters like Gervex, Carolus-Duran, Detaille...8, whom twentieth-century modernist critics would describe as "pompiers".
overall dimensions: 27.5 cm x 20 cm
21.5 cm x 12.5 cm for the painting

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Additional Information

Condition	Good
Style	Second Empire style, Napoleon III style (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes of Second Empire style, Napoleon III style Style)
Period	19th century (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes 19th century)
Country of origin	France
Artist	ERNEST MEISSONIER