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- (Jean-Louis-) Ernest Meissonier (1815 - 1891)
- The Hired Assassins
- France
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- Date: 1852
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on mahogany panel
- Image size: 38.1 x 28.7 cm
- Object size: 59 x 51 x 12.5 cm
- Inv: P327
- Location: West Gallery III
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- Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1852. The figures wear sixteenth-century costume. This is one of Meissonier's rare paintings of a dramatic scene where there is an emotional tension between the figures and viewer is invited to be emotionally engaged.