Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001887Cuirassier with Drawn Sword
Inscriptions
Signed: Meissonier (handwritten by artist on proper left back of base); stamped impression: 6 (inside a circle on proper right back of base); Cire Perdue/ Siot - Decauville (foundry mark on proper right back of base)
Provenance
Arthur Rubloff (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1988.
Publications
Constance Cain Hungerford, “Ernest Meissonier’s First Military Paintings: 1: The Emperor Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino,” Arts Magazine 54, 5 (January 1980), pp. 89-97. Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, “Le Voyageur de Meissonier,” La Revue du Louvre 35, 2 (1985), pp. 129-35. John Milner, The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late Seventeenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 175, 177. Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, "Meissonier sculpteur," Ernest Meissonier: Rétrospective (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993), pp. 236-41, 254, no. 160. Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier, Master in His Genre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 208 (ill.).
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
- Modeled c. 1875, cast after 1891
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 62.5 × 21 cm (19 3/4 × 24 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- statuette
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Arthur Rubloff
- Accession no.
- 1988.36.11
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