Meissonier
Americannoun
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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
In the middle 1880s, Commodore Vanderbilt was staying at a hotel in Paris, having his portrait painted by Meissonier.
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
On view were his latest works, featuring a spatterdash Homage to Meissonier, which most certainly would not please Meissonier, a 19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this respect G�r�me compares unfavorably with Meissonier.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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