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 Paintings of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier :. | The Card Players, | Jean-Baptiste de Roll-Montpellier enfant | The Card Players | Relief after the Battle | Study of a horse |
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Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans
painted The Blind Beggar in 1853
Johann Baptist Reiter
painted Slumbering Woman in 1849
Alessio Baldovinetti
Florence ca 1425-1499