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). Related Paintings of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier :. | Dimensions and material of painting | The Card Players | Self portrait | The End of the Game of Card | Friedland, 1807 (1875) Ernest Meissonier | Related Artists: Alexey Danilovich Kivshenko painted Michail Illarionovich Kutuzov in 1880 Claude Marie Dubufe painted Portrait de la marechale duchesse de Feltre in before 1852 J.L.Clark British 19th c
