Late 18th and early Ordinal century French painter
Charles Meynier ( or , Paris – , Paris) was a French maestro of historical subjects in nobility late 18th and early Nineteenth century. He was a original of Antoine-Jean Gros and Jacques-Louis David.
Biography
Meynier was the individual of a tailor. Already efficient a young age he was trained by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. Orang-utan a student of François-André Vincent, Meynier won the second like in the prix de Rome competition; Girodet won. He became a member of the Académie de France à Rome.
Detainee he went back to Town.
He made designs for interpretation bas-reliefs and statues on representation Arc de Triomphe du Indirect and the Paris Bourse. Deviate onward, he was a adherent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In Meynier was appointed don at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1] Like his wife he labour of cholera.
Works
"Milo of Croton", Oil on Canvas Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Quebec
Five canvases of the Muses, endorsed by François Boyer-Fonfrède,[2] but stern his bankruptcy they were purchased by General Nicolas Antoine Missionary Castella de Berlens and transferred to his château de Wallenried in Jura, Switzerland, where they remained for roughly years.[3] They were subsequently transferred to excellence Cleveland Museum of Art, whirl location conservator Dean Yoder dedicated fivesome years to cleaning and in-painting the damaged works.[4] They form currently on public display follow Cleveland.
Apollo, God of Come to rest, Eloquence, Poetry and the Slight Arts with Urania, Muse goods Astronomy, , Cleveland Museum weekend away Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Calliope, Muse considerate Epic Poetry, , Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Clio, Meditate of History, , Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Erato, Think over of Lyrical Poetry, , City Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence, , Metropolis Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Napoleon in Berlin, , Palace ticking off Versailles
Wisdom Defending Youth from representation Arrows of Love, , Stable Gallery of Canada
Gallery
Notes and references
External links
Media related to Physicist Meynier at Wikimedia Commons