Meissonier, his life and his art . e experiences, desultoryand contradictory as the)- were,by no means affected his invin-cible confidence in the was determined to be apainter, he felt that he should be .some day, and in the meantime, he acceptedwith comparative patience, tasks very uncongenial to his artistic to the paternal roof after his last sojourn at Grenoble, Meissonier,then a lad of seventeen, was condemned to copy business letters frommorning till night, and after a few months in the , to passfrom theory to practice in the form of an appren
Meissonier, his life and his art . e experiences, desultoryand contradictory as the)- were,by no means affected his invin-cible confidence in the was determined to be apainter, he felt that he should be .some day, and in the meantime, he acceptedwith comparative patience, tasks very uncongenial to his artistic to the paternal roof after his last sojourn at Grenoble, Meissonier,then a lad of seventeen, was condemned to copy business letters frommorning till night, and after a few months in the , to passfrom theory to practice in the form of an apprenticeship to the druggistalready mentioned. In his new home, as before in his fathers house,he solaced himself at night for the prosaic occupations of the day. Alonein his little bedroom, his door carefully bolted, he drew for hours,sometimes till dawn, a fertile imagination and a singular faculty ofobservation making up, to .some extent, for his want of technicalknowledge. He was so untiring in his efforts, that at last his father. MEISSOMER !N l269. APPENDIX 349
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