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Cuirassier with Drawn Sword
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier · Modeled c. 1875, cast after 1891
Provenance
Ownership history
- Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Constance Cain Hungerford, “Ernest Meissonier’s First Military Paintings: 1: The Emperor Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino,” Arts Magazine 54, 5 (January 1980), pp. 89-97.
- Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, “Le Voyageur de Meissonier,” La Revue du Louvre 35, 2 (1985), pp. 129-35.
- John Milner, The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 175, 177.
- Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, "Meissonier sculpteur," Ernest Meissonier: Rétrospective (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993), pp. 236-41, 254, no. 160.
- Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier, Master in His Genre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 208 (ill.).
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