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Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier
Study of a Seated Cavalier Readingcirca 1870

Not on view
Oil painting, full-length portrait of a young girl seated in a wooden chair, reading papers, rendered in loose brushwork with warm brown tones
Artist or Maker
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier
Title
Study of a Seated Cavalier Reading
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1870
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Panel: 5 × 6 in. (12.7 × 15.24 cm) Frame: 21 × 20 × 2 5/8 in. (53.34 × 50.8 × 6.67 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Arnold S. Kirkeby
Accession Number
58.50.2
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.