Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001585The Defense of Paris
Inscriptions
Inscribed vertically, lower right: MAVD1891
Provenance
The artist; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 12–13, 1893, cat. 110 for 5,200 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. W. Muller, Paris; sold to George F. Harding Jr. (died 1939), Chicago, August 5, 1924 [according to a Harding Museum record, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983; accessioned 1994.
Publications
Vallery C. O. Gréard, Meissonier: His Life and his Art (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1897), pp. 257–60. Constance Cain Hungerford, “Meissonier’s ‘Siège de Paris’ and ‘Ruines des Tuileries’,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, 116 (1990), pp. 202–03, 211 n. 11. Constance Cain Hungerford, “‘Les choses importantes’: Meissonier et la peinture d’histoire,” in Philippe Durey and Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier: Rétrospective, exh. cat. (Lyon: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 1993), p. 172 n. 60. Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier: Master in his Genre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 140.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
- Date
- 1870–71
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 29.2 × 36.2 cm (11 1/2 × 14 1/4 in.); Framed: 49.2 × 58.7 cm (19 3/8 × 23 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1994.432
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