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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
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Self_portrait
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Self-portrait,_oil_sketch,
ca._1865.
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Jean-Louis-Ernest_Meissonier
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Self portrait
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Self-portrait, oil sketch,
ca. 1865.
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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).
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