An Abbé

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Meissonier is known chiefly for painting small pictures, executed with a detailed but delicate touch. He seems to have based his style on the fine manner of the seventeenth-century Leiden painters but, as here, often took his subjects from eighteenth-century everyday life. There are a number of similar single figures in Meissonier's work, dating from the 1850s.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

An Abbé

Date

1850–1859

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 15 x W 9 cm

Accession number

WA1962.4.1

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Miss G. E. G. Watkins in memory of Sir Henry Thompson, Bt, 1962

Work type

Painting

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