Painting MESSONIER Interior Copy costume 18th 20th oil panel Friends Love letter

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20th century school after Ernest MEISSONIER Lyon, 1815 – Paris, 1891 Oil on wood panel Signed lower left “M” 44 cm x 34 cm (56 x 47 cm with the frame) Excellent condition Ernest Meissonier beca0me famous in the 1840s/1850s by painting genre scenes on small wooden panels featuring 18th century gentlemen in their daily occupations. The writer Théophile Gautier compared Messonier to the Flemish masters of the 17th century such as Gerard ter Borch, Gabriel Metsu, Pieter de Hooch and Vermeer de Delft. Ernest Meissonier's attention to detail was remarkable. He was admired by the greatest artists of his time from Delacroix to Van Gogh and from Maupassant to Proust. Working in his worksop, he was dressing his models in historical costumes and represented evrey little details. He also knew how to show the most delicate feelings. A fashionable painter in the 1850s, Meissonier was chosen in 1855 by Napoleon with "la Rixe" bought for 25,000 francs as a gift for a birthday present to Prince Albert of England, Queen Victoria's husband. The greatest collectors had Messoniers (Lord Hertford and his son Richard Wallace, the Delesserts, the Rothschilds, the Péreires and even Alfred Mosselmann). And Meissonier's fame has lasted until today and his works have been regularly copied. Here we have a beautiful copy in the same dimensions as that of the original painting dated 1857 (today exhibited in the castle of Compiègne). The painting represents an intimate scene where a man reads a letter (probably a love letter) and confides it to his companion. As the art critic Henri Delaborde wrote, "The eagerness of the first to pour out his joy or his hopes, the insinuating vivacity with which he clarifies and brings out through the movement of his whole person the information that his lips transmit to his companion, while the latter listens coldly to this impassioned confidence and calculates the consequences on his own - all these subtle contrasts between what the two actors in the scene think or feel are analyzed and rendered with the perspicacity of a moralist and the verve of a comic poet. As usual, the details described are numerous, here the earthenware with a blue and white decoration, the plate of fruit, the carafes and the glass of wine on the table, the beautiful white tablecloth with its folds as well as the two three-cornered hats suspended and the pocket placed on the ground.

Dimensions:
Height: 13.39 in (34 cm)Width: 17.33 in (44 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
47 x 56 cm with framePrice: $1,300
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
French School
After:
Ernest MESSONIER (1815 - 1891, French)
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
PARIS, FR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2524212238332

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