Meissonier, his life and his art . cept it as a memento ofhappy hours.) \%Zb.—Bacchus drinking from a spout (h. 0,46 ;w. 0,36). Naked, save for a girdle of vine-leaves, he sits astride a cask, his head thrownback, and pours the wine from the spoutdown his throat. A signboard. 1887.—^ Guide. .Study for iSoj (h. 0,19; ,12). 1887.—//7^ studies of Cuirassiers, for 1887.—Cuirassiers Boots. Study for iSoj. 1887.—^ Parchment Book, with red edges, andtwo metal clasps. For the remark on theengraving after A Reading at Diderots House. 1890.—Marco, Meissoniers St. Bernard Dog (,26 ;


Meissonier, his life and his art . cept it as a memento ofhappy hours.) \%Zb.—Bacchus drinking from a spout (h. 0,46 ;w. 0,36). Naked, save for a girdle of vine-leaves, he sits astride a cask, his head thrownback, and pours the wine from the spoutdown his throat. A signboard. 1887.—^ Guide. .Study for iSoj (h. 0,19; ,12). 1887.—//7^ studies of Cuirassiers, for 1887.—Cuirassiers Boots. Study for iSoj. 1887.—^ Parchment Book, with red edges, andtwo metal clasps. For the remark on theengraving after A Reading at Diderots House. 1890.—Marco, Meissoniers St. Bernard Dog (,26 ; w. 0,37). Lying on the carpet in thestudio, his great paws in front of him. A paw-sketched in pencil on one side. He is tawnylike a lion, with a black muzzle. ligo.—An Eagle on a Sword. Remark for1S07 (h. o,o9i ; w. 0,16). 1S90.—A Dragoon of the Army of Spain (,i4i ; w. o,ioi). He sits down at last to aquiet pipe in his billet. His helmet andsword lie on a chair ; his dram of brandystands on a table beside WATER-COLOURS (UND.\TED) The Latest Ne-us. Peasants seated at a tablelistening- to the reading of the old woman leans forward to hear. To theright, a peasant in a cotton cap, another infront of the fire. Saint Bartholomews Day. The ground strewnwith corpses ; fighting going on before a 3 D 386 CATALOGUE OF MEISSONIERS WORKS church door. A horseman, galloping forward,is struck in the breast by a bullet. Thtrc Studies of Koii/ni, Meissonicrs .Silcsiandog. A Afcmory of Ciiil War: the lhvricadc\ 1S4S(h. 0,29 ; w. 0,21). Exhibited among ex-amples of the modern school at the Ecole desBeaux Arts, February, 1884. Study of Olive Trees at Antibes (h. 0,20; \v. 0,34).Exhibited among examples of the modernschool at the Ecole des Beaux .\rts, February,1884. Portrait of Meissoiiier at the age of 44 (h. 0,40 ;w. 0,28). Exhibited among ofthe modern school at the Ecole des BeauxArts, February, 1884. The Ruins of the Tuileries (h, 0,40 ; w. 0,2


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