19th Century European Art

19th Century European Art

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Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Le Porte-Étendard

Lot Closed

May 26, 06:39 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

French

1815 - 1891

Le Porte-Étendard


signed and dated ƎMeissonier 1857

oil on cradled panel

panel: 16 by 11½ in.; 40.6 by 29.3 cm

framed: 23 by 18½ in.; 58.4 by 47 cm

Sale: Christie's, London, The Donald M. Munson Collection, 4 May, 1995, lot 25
Elizabeth Ross Johnson, Vail, Colorado, (her estate sale, 2021)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
M. O. Gréard, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier: Ses Souvenirs--Ses Entretiens. Paris, 1879, p. 395 (as Le Porte-Étendard)
Vallery C. O. Gréard, Meissonier: His Life and His Art. New York, 1897, p. 368 (as The Standard Bearer)