Meissonier, his life and his art . them. Years afterwards, when he him-self was an elderly man, he came back to Saint-Ismier—a modestcountry house close to Grenoble, where the Feriots lived during thesummer—full of joy and gratitude, to paint the little dwelling withthe pure light bathing the facade, the smiling garden, the splendidcypress towering so vigorously skyward. Later still, in his extremeold age, he touched up the faded portraits of his former hosts withalmost filial piety. 8 MEISSONTER Did his homesickness, from which he had suffered so severely atfirst, really plead for liis recall
Meissonier, his life and his art . them. Years afterwards, when he him-self was an elderly man, he came back to Saint-Ismier—a modestcountry house close to Grenoble, where the Feriots lived during thesummer—full of joy and gratitude, to paint the little dwelling withthe pure light bathing the facade, the smiling garden, the splendidcypress towering so vigorously skyward. Later still, in his extremeold age, he touched up the faded portraits of his former hosts withalmost filial piety. 8 MEISSONTER Did his homesickness, from which he had suffered so severely atfirst, really plead for liis recall, as he seems to suppose ? After twoyears at Grenoble, his father sent for him, and immediately on hisarrival in Paris, put him into the counting-house, employing him,by way of a beginning, in copying letters. The intervention of acustomer, whose son was at school at Thiais, saved him once was at Thiais that Meissonier acquired a taste for study, in thesociety of Alcide Lorenz, Lejeune, the future great doctor, and the.
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