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Updated: April 30, 2025
I'll introduce you to two celebrities. We will visit the homes of two artists." "But I have been ordered to go to the country!" "That's just where we'll go. On the way we'll call on Meissonier, at his place in Poissy; then we'll walk over to Medan, where Zola lives. I have been commissioned to obtain his next novel for our newspaper." Patissot, wild with joy, accepted the invitation.
This was a shock; and yet to have in Annette a virgin taste to form would be better than to have the silly, half-baked predilections of the English middle-class to deal with. At the end of the gallery was a Meissonier of which he was rather ashamed Meissonier was so steadily going down. Madame Lamotte stopped before it. "Meissonier! Ah! What a jewel!" Soames took advantage of that moment.
His funeral services were held in the Madeleine, and he was buried at Poissy, near Versailles, a great military procession following him to the grave. In the painting of this picture we have already told how every detail was mastered by actual experience of most of them. Meissonier made dozens of studies for it "a horse's head, an uplifted leg, cuirasses, helmets, models of horses in red wax, etc.
Affectionate, slow with the Dutch slowness praised by Rodin and tenacious, he set out to conquer a small corner in the kingdom of art, and to-day he is first among the Little Masters. This too convenient appellation must not class him with such myopic miniaturists as Meissonier.
A sabre does not stop in mid-air with its flashing, where a Meissonier or a Detaille would paint it it goes right on through the cords and veins of a man's neck.
William Michael Rossetti has summed the matter up well by saying: "Perfection is so rare in this world that when we find it we must pause and pay it the tribute of our silent admiration. It is very easy to say that Meissonier should have put in this and omitted that. Had he painted differently he would have been some one else.
In the next decade a single Meissonier may be worth its weight in sheet gold and layers of Sorollas may be stored in attics awaiting some fortunate auction. What will ensue, the art world over, before the wheel travels its full periphery, no man knows.
They are fond of quoting a saying of Gauguin's that "one must be either a revolutionist or a plagiary"; but can any one tell these revolutionists apart? Can any one distinguish among them such definite and logically developed personalities as mark even schoolmen and "plagiarists" like Meissonier and Gérôme?
In my own time I have seen Verbeckoeven eclipsed by Van Marcke, Bouguereau, Cabanel, and Gérôme by Manet, and Sir Frederick Leighton by John Sargent a young David slaying the Goliath of English technic with but a wave of his magic brush and, last and by no means least, the great French painter Meissonier by the equally great Spanish master Sorolla.
Wherefore, in Paris, attorneys, doctors, and barristers, like courtesans with a chance-come lover, take very considerable precautions against the gratitude of clients. The client before and after the lawsuit would furnish a subject worthy of Meissonier; there would be brisk bidding among attorneys for the possession of two such admirable bits of genre.
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