A Painter
Medium
oil on mahogany
Dimensions
unframed: 27 × 21.1 cm · framed: 39 × 33.5 × 6.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
Accession Number
1982.247
Tags
male
About this artwork
Meissonier often depicted artists and musicians of the 1600s and 1700s engaged in their work. This artist is busy painting a small canvas depicting a nymph and satyr. The artist’s 18th-century costume—nearly 100 years out of date at the time of the painting’s creation—transforms the scene into a charming historical fiction. Meissonier exhibited the painting at the Paris Salon of 1857.