Ernest Meissonier, 1861 - 1807, Friedland - fine art print

Artwork depiction by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This work, the largest and most ambitious painting by an artist renowned for meticulously rendered cabinet pictures, evokes one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s greatest victories. Meissonier made hundreds of preparatory studies for it, including drawings and sculptural models. He conceived the picture as part of a cycle of five key episodes in the life of the Emperor, only one other of which was completed: The Campaign of France—1814, an image of defeat (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). The present work gained notoriety in 1876, when the American department store magnate Alexander T. Stewart purchased it from the artist, sight unseen, for the then astronomical sum of $60,000.

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The work of art was made by the painter Ernest Meissonier in 1861. The original version measures the size: 53 1/2 x 95 1/2 in (135,9 x 242,6 cm) and was made with the technique of oil on canvas. Today, this artpiece can be viewed in in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Henry Hilton, 1887 (licensed - public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Henry Hilton, 1887. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an aspect ratio of 16 : 9, meaning that the length is 78% longer than the width.

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