Who Painted This? #55

Who painted this #55

Back afterward a curt interruption piece I got on alongside writing the book, this is a "who painted this" to give-up the ghost along you lot going over Christmas!

Don't forget also wanting the answers to all the usual questions (see below) I'd also similar to listen virtually what you lot managed to abide by out virtually the creative mortal together with ikon - together with the best reply wins this week's challenge!

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• use your brains non software to abide by the answer - search using words only on a database of images 
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• the winner - who gets a cite together with a link on/from this spider web log - is NOT THIS WEEK the get-go mortal to hand me a completely right reply for ALL the things I desire to know. It's the mortal 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 mortal 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 in 1 lawsuit the darling of the Paris Salon together with commanded astronomically high prices for his finely rendered paintings.

His ikon career is compared together with contrasted alongside that of Manet inward the Ross King's majority  The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism.  It's a recommended together with fascinating read virtually the Paris Salon, the Salon des Refuses together with the emergence of Impressionism.

If you lot watch London, larn to the Wallace Collection - they accept an fantabulous collection of modest paintings yesteryear Meissonnier, some of which tin unremarkably hold out seen inward 1 of the galleries on the lower floor.

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #54? - Three people got the reply right together with are listed below inward alphabetical order

• LA Colbeck
• Patrick Connors was get-go alongside the right answer 
• Bernadette Madden

Both Patrick together with Bernadette had fantabulous extended answers virtually the painter together with his ikon 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, together with curators: Which French artists of the 19th century would nonetheless hold out of import 1 hundred years thus inward the twelvemonth 1997? The results were, issue one, Adolphe William Bouguereau; second, Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier; and, third, Léon Gérôme.

However the best reply yet in 1 lawsuit again came from Bernadette.

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