The Defense of Paris

1. The artist; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 12–13, 1893, cat. 110 for 5,200 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. W. Muller, Paris; sold to George F. Harding Jr. (died 1939), Chicago, August 5, 1924 [according to a Harding Museum record, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983; accessioned 1994.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Vallery C. O. Gréard, Meissonier: His Life and his Art (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1897), pp. 257–60.
• Constance Cain Hungerford, “Meissonier’s ‘Siège de Paris’ and ‘Ruines des Tuileries’,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, 116 (1990), pp. 202–03, 211 n. 11.
• Constance Cain Hungerford, “‘Les choses importantes’: Meissonier et la peinture d’histoire,” in Philippe Durey and Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier: Rétrospective, exh. cat. (Lyon: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 1993), p. 172 n. 60.
• Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier: Master in his Genre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 140.

Cuirassier with Drawn Sword

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The Grand Smoker

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L'Endymien

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The Out-Post

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The Sergeant Reporter

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Signor Annibale

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Punchinello

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Bacchus

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