Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
French, 1815–1891
Jules Pelletier
1867
Meissonier's portrait shows the French statesman Jules Pelletier wearing a robe trimmed with ermine, a lace neckerchief, and the medal of the Legion of Honor, hanging from a red ribbon. He looks directly at the viewer, his pose and expression reminiscent of contemporary photographic portraits.
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 8 1/8 x 5 13/16 in. (20.7 x 14.7 cm) Frame: 12 9/16 x 10 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (31.9 x 25.7 x 5.7 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.811 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Jules Pelletier, 1867, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.811
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
EUROPEAN PAINTINGS CATALOGUE ENTRY
Provenance
Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1919, no. 80, ill., as Portrait d’un Président de Cour, sold to Knoedler, possibly as agent for Clark; Robert Sterling Clark (possibly 1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
