Charles Meynier (1768-1832)

• Was a French painter.
• Charles Meynier was a pupil of François-André Vincent.
• Meynier mainly painted historical and allegorical pictures.
• He was responsible for the designs of the bas-reliefs and statues of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
• Born into a modest family and destined by his father to be a tailor, his only desire was to become a painter.
• It was his older brother, an actor from the Comédie-Française, who had him admitted to François Vincent's studio.
• Meynier worked hard, thus obtaining awards and successes, until he won a second prix de Rome in 1789.
• Meynier in 1816 became a member of the Paris Academy of Fine Arts.
• In the summer of 1832 Meynier and his wife contracted cholera.
• Charles died in early September, just a few days after her.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Charles Meynier, Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry, 1800.
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