Charles Meynier

Detail : Napoleon on the Isle of Lobau

Charles Meynier (1763, Paris - 1832, Paris) was a French painter. A student of François-André Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome competition. He made designs for the bas-reliefs and statues on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and was, from 1816 onward, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

Biography

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Works

• He made nine canvases of the Muses, commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède, now held at château de Wallenreid in Switzerland, (Jura)^[1]. General Castella de Berlens, during a stay in Paris, bought these works.

Notes and references

1. ^ Ghislain de Diesbach, « Un nid de souvenirs en Suisse », Connaissance des Arts, n° 192, February 1968, pages 62-67.

• Exhibition of Meynier's work on La Tribune de l'art

See also

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