Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — MEISSONIER'S STATUE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEISSONIER'S STATUE.

Great Painter Is Represented as Seen in His Paris Stmlio. A statue was unveiled in the garden of the Loavre at Paris last week in memory of Jean Louis Ernest Meis3onier, on® of the most celebrated painters of France, and the statue was the work of one of France’s most celebrated sculptors, Marius Jean Antoine Mercie. The monument is iu white marbie. Meissonier is represented as lie was seen in his studio, clad in a voluminous dressing gown, as in the portrait of himself which he painted

in 1889 for A. T. Stewart to accompany his most ambitious picture “1807.” Marius Jean Antoine Mercie, who wrought the statue, is one of the most famous of modern French sculptors, now 50 years old; he does not excel in statue* of repose like this, but in statues or groups of. action, such as his “Gloria Victis,” a highly theatrical composition designed to console his country for the German defeat, which*’now stands in the Montholon Square in Paris. He is an officer of the Legion of Honor and ha* been medaled at the Salon and at international exhibitions repeatedly.

MERCIE’S STATUE OF MEISSONIER.