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
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
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
And it is said that Meissonier was in the habit all his life of making life-size studies in order to keep his style from falling into pettiness.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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