Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier Friedland, 1807 (1861-1875) by Ernest Meissonier oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date ca. 1875(1875)
cjr Friedland, 1807 (1875) Ernest Meissonier 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).
