Lot 9: Jean Charles Meissonier (French, 1848-1917)

A merry tune
signed with monogram and dated 'M 1882' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (39.4 x 26.3 cm.)

Son of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, he began exhibiting at the Salon at the age of 17, starting with small genre scenes, thence turning to landscape. His style exhibited aspects of Impressionism later on and he settled in the village of Angles, near Avignon.

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