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Title: Meissonier, his life and his art
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891 Gréard, Octave, 1828-1904
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Publisher: New York : A. C. Armstrong
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1*. Napoleon. (sketch of the wax M0I>IL of .NAIULtUN.) HIS WORKS 26s
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THE RUINS OF THE TUILERIES, MAY 1877. happiness, a placid moral life! And I am worn out, harassed withanxieties! If this is the only remedy, I fear my time is short! Last night I could not sleep, and I lay awake, thinking of the M M 266 MEISSONIER paintings I would put on the walls of my house over one door, Painting and Music ; over the other, Sculpture and Architecture. Then I imagined a large composition between the two, represent-ing the arts in action, so to speak. In the centre of the composition, a Musician, playing an instru-ment .... on the left Architecture standing, leaning her elbow upona table, and listening. . . . On the right, Paintingf. . . . Towards themiddle, on the left, Sculpture, conversing with a great prophet. Another idea was to have two ancient musicians in the middle,escorted and led away by great winged genii. Wont my staircase be magnificent, with the allegory of the Poeton one wall, and Homer appearing to Dante on the other ? I was going to the Institut wi
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