The Defense of Paris

Provenance

The artist; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 12–13, 1893, cat. 110 for 5,200 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. W. Muller, Paris; sold to George F. Harding Jr. (died 1939), Chicago, August 5, 1924 [according to a Harding Museum record, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983; accessioned 1994.

The Defense of Paris

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

1870–71

Accession Number

133864

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

29.2 × 36.2 cm (11 1/2 × 14 1/4 in.); Framed: 49.2 × 58.7 cm (19 3/8 × 23 1/8 in.)

Classification

oil on panel

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

George F. Harding Collection