Meissonier
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He is a cultural figure “whose faults,” as Baudelaire said of the then-popular, obsessively scrupulous Ernest Meissonier, are “well attuned to the faults of the masses that have singularly assisted his popularity.”
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2013
When Meissonier came for the next sitting, Vanderbilt . . . said: "I am going to give you that picture."
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing very well how it would be received by militant modernists, he adopted Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier, the last word in retrograde Academicism, as the model for his enameled surfaces and high-definition images.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the middle 1880s, Commodore Vanderbilt was staying at a hotel in Paris, having his portrait painted by Meissonier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Meissonier, his master, his speciality is miniatures in oils, representing historic scenes, and genre pictures.
From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil
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