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- (Jean-Louis-) Ernest Meissonier (1815 - 1891)
- Isaiah
- France
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- Date: c. 1838
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 33.5 x 21 cm, excluding black surround
- Object size: 32 x 39.5 x 5.5 cm
- Inv: P297
- Location: West Gallery III
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- Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1840 and dated c.1838 by the historian Constance Cain Hungerford. Isaiah was a Hebrew prophet of the 8th century B.C. Traditionally he was the author of the Old Testament Book named after him. One of Meissonier’s few religious subjects, this is a study for a steel engraving in Léon Curmer’s edition of Bossuet’s 'Discours sur l’histoire universelle' (1841). The conception owes much to Michelangelo.