 Ernest Messonier is primarily known as Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
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"The most famous and successful painter of the nineteenth century" (3),
Jean Meissonier, born in Lyon, represented the conservatism of the
French Academy, the force defied by Impressionists who led the new
modernism. At that time, which was the mid to late 19th Century,
his paintings brought very high prices, and he spent lavishly on
personal possessions including his home, furnishings and horses in the
stables. Three times, he was awarded the Grand Medal of Honor,
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