COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1982.247
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Meissonier, Ernest
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1815 - 1891
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Ernest Meissonier
Title:
A Painter
Title Type:
Primary
Title:
Un peintre
Title Type:
Foreign
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1855
Creation Start Date:
1855
Creation End Date:
1855
Materials and Techniques:
oil on wood
Dimensions:
Unframed: 26.7cm x 21.2cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1982.247
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
Inscriptions:
Signed lower right: "EMeissonier. 1855 [EM in monogram]"
Context:
A painter in his studio is busy at work on a small canvas depicting a nymph and satyr, probably Jupiter and Antiope. The painter wears 18th-century dress, indicating that at the time of its creation in 1855, this picture was already a charming historical fiction. It was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1857.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1982.247.tif
