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Title: Meissonier, his life and his art
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891 Gréard, Octave, 1828-1904
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Publisher: New York : A. C. Armstrong
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STLDY OF A DRAGOON FOR Tlu GuitU. (Miis^e du Luxembourg.) esting, odious to me, Uke that Napoleon picture, for instance, which Isold in London, and for which I must now find a name. Eckmiihl isperhaps the only battle which would agree with the picture, and its HIS WORKS 245 charge of cuirassiers. But I hav^e not quite decided upon this nameyet. I am inquiring at the War Office, hunting through documents.
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THE SCO!, r. (M. Maximilien Beyers collection. Think ot iSoj, and iSi^. If I had been forced to determine theactual battle, or the exact date of the campaign of France, I should 246 MEISSONIER have become the slave of my subject. Th(; same with iSjo. It is the Siege, not such and such a day of the Siege. As a little relaxation after the discipline of military subjects, Ithought of painting something youthful, a love-scene, Daphnis andChloe. But this has been done so often. I cant take up that note.As to finishing .some old picture, like the Concert, which I began sometwo or three years ago, that would be impossible to me now. It reallyis not worth while to paint all those stuffs, and work out all thosecostumes, merely to render various attitudes of listening attention. Chenavard dissuaded me from attempting an Ariosto reading hisverses. I had made a sketch for it. The Italians have done allthose things far better than any modern can do them, he said. Sincethen, I have lived in Venice,

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