Oil on Wood Panel Flag Bearer of the Flemish Civic Guard

  

TABLEAU / PAINTING / OIL ON WOOD PANEL "FLAG BEARER OF THE FLANDERS CIVIC GUARD" AFTER MEISSONIER. Specialized in historical painting and genre scenes. A painter very concerned with authentic detail, he is part of the academic movement that predominated in the visual arts during the Second Empire. Covered in honors, he sits in the Academy of Fine Arts and presides over numerous national or international juries.

Even though Marcel Proust, during his adolescence, Guy de Maupassant, and Robert Louis Stevenson held him as their favorite painter, and although he was greatly appreciated by Eugène Delacroix and later admired by Vincent van Gogh, part of the criticism, mainly posthumous, judged his work devoid of spontaneity and life. The painter's reputation thus traverses a purgatory, and Edouard Manet's fierce judgment is often cited regarding one of his battle paintings: "Everything is steel, except for the breastplates." Or the nickname given to him by Edgar Degas, implying that Meissonier was the most notable of painters like Gervex, according to the modernist critique. Dimensions: 34cm x 24.5cm for the whole, 25.5cm x 16cm for the painting. YOU BUY WHAT YOU SEE.

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