File:1807, Friedland.jpg

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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier: 1807, Friedland  wikidata:Q9546923 reasonator:Q9546923
Artist
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier  (1815–1891)  wikidata:Q354786 q:cs:Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
 
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Description French sculptor, painter, politician and illustrator
Date of birth/death 21 February 1815 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lyon Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris, Poissy
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artist QS:P170,Q354786
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Title
1807, Friedland
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre military art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Painting by Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891), gift of Henry Hilton to the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, 1887. Meissonier, largely self-taught, established his reputation in the 1840s as a painter of small-scale genre scenes rendered in meticulous detail. An 1864 history painting, "1814, the Campaign of France" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), signaled the artist's new interest in epic Napoleonic subjects. Countering that image of Napoleon in defeat, "1807, Friedland," Meissonier's largest and most ambitious painting, evokes one of the emperor's greatest victories. These two paintings were the only realized works in a projected cycle of five episodes in the life of Napoleon. "1807, Friedland" gained notoriety in 1876 when the American department store magnate Alexander T. Stewart (1803–1876) purchased it from the artist, sight unseen, for an astronomical sum. Judge Henry Hilton acquired the work at Stewart's estate sale and in 1887 bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum.
Depicted people Napoleon Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1861–75
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 135.9 cm (53.5 in); width: 242.6 cm (95.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,135.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,242.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
87.20.1
Credit line Gift of Henry Hilton, 1887
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Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 437052)
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