Brand New!! Who Painted This? #55

Who painted this #55

Back afterwards a brusk intermission spell I got on alongside writing the book, this is a "who painted this" to kicking the bucket on you lot going over Christmas!

Don't forget likewise wanting the answers to all the usual questions (see below) I'd also similar to listen most what you lot managed to uncovering out most the creative somebody in addition to prototype - in addition to the best respond wins this week's challenge!

How to participate inward "Who painted this? #55"

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Click this link to read THE RULES for participating inward this challenge (this saves having to re-create them out for each post!).

In short:

• use your brains non software to uncovering the answer - search using words only on a database of images 
• leave your respond every bit a comment on this spider web log - do non exit the respond on Facebook! 
• if right it volition non endure published until the adjacent post service - which provides the answer 
• if incorrect it volition endure published 
• the winner - who gets a get upwards in addition to a link on/from this spider web log - is NOT THIS WEEK the kickoff somebody to laissez passer on me a completely right respond for ALL the things I desire to know. It's the somebody who does all this AND provides the BEST answer (see above)

Who Painted This #54 - The Answer

A Painter yesteryear Meisonnier

• Title of the artwork: A Painter  
• Name of the creative somebody who created this artwork: Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier
• Date it was created: 1855
• Media used: oil on mahogany painting
• Where it lives now: Cleveland Museum of Art

Meisonnier was ane time the darling of the Paris Salon in addition to commanded astronomically high prices for his finely rendered paintings.

His prototype career is compared in addition to contrasted alongside that of Manet inward the Ross King's mass  The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism.  It's a recommended in addition to fascinating read most the Paris Salon, the Salon des Refuses in addition to the emergence of Impressionism.

If you lot view London, larn to the Wallace Collection - they accept an first-class collection of pocket-sized paintings yesteryear Meissonnier, some of which tin commonly endure seen inward ane of the galleries on the lower floor.

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #54? - Three people got the respond right in addition to are listed below inward alphabetical order

• LA Colbeck
• Patrick Connors was kickoff alongside the right answer 
• Bernadette Madden

Both Patrick in addition to Bernadette had first-class extended answers most the painter in addition to his prototype of a painter.

This is from Patrick's response 

Some other notes on Meissonnier's fame are that inward 1897 a Parisian paper [Le Figaro] asked the leading French fine art dealers, critics, in addition to curators: Which French artists of the 19th century would nonetheless endure of import ane hundred years so inward the twelvemonth 1997? The results were, issue one, Adolphe William Bouguereau; second, Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier; and, third, Léon Gérôme.

However the best respond yet ane time again came from Bernadette.

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