This artist created a model for one canvas by sculpting the land in clay, then covering it in sugar and making imprints with a model horse hoof, but he was forced to replace the sugar with flour when the model was attacked by his neighbor's bees.
This artist created a model for one canvas by sculpting the land in clay, then covering it in sugar and making imprints with a model horse hoof, but he was forced to replace the sugar with flour when the model was attacked by his neighbor's bees. He won the Grand Medal of Honor at the Salon of 1855 for a depiction of a group of men in a tavern, two of whom lunge violently toward each other, called The Brawl. For himself, he designed the "Grande Maison" mansion in Poissy. His intricate portraits include Halt at an Inn and The Visit to the Burgomaster, showing men in seventeenth-century dress, which won this artist the nickname "the French Metsu".  FTP, name this magnificently-bearded French artist of many "bonshommes," who's best-known for his paintings of Napoleonic battles like The Campaign of France and Friedland.
This artist created a model for one canvas by sculpting the land in clay, then covering it in sugar and making imprints with a model horse hoof, but he was forced to replace the sugar with flour when the model was attacked by his neighbor's bees.
Ernest Meissonier [or Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier]