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Summary
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier : 1807, Friedland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q354786
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Title |
1807, Friedland
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | military art | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Depicted people | Napoleon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | circa 1861–75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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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
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Accession number |
87.20.1
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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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