Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

We have 132 objects that Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier has had a hand in. Here's the break-down:

• Designer, 130 objects
• Style of, one object
• Maker, one object

These are a couple of those things by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier in our collection:

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  Print, "Première Etage [First Floor], Maison du Sieur Léon Brethous [First... This object's accession number is 1921-6-212-4-e and is dated 1742–48 (Rococo) This is from the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department This object was designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

  
  
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  Print, 1748 This object's accession number is 1921-6-212-67 and is dated 1748 (Rococo) This is from the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department This object was designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

  
  

Wikipedia

Juste Aurèle Meissonier (1695 – 31 July 1750) was a French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer.

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He was born at Turin, but became known as a worker in Paris, where he died. His Italian origin and training were probably responsible for the extravagance of his decorative style. He shared, and perhaps distanced, the meretricious triumphs of Oppenard and Germain, since he dealt with the Rococo in its most daring and flamboyant developments.

Rarely does he leave a foot or two of undecorated space; Meissonier carried the style of his day to its extreme and thus achieved great popularity. Like the English brothers Adam at a later day he not only as architect built houses, but as painter and decorator covered their internal walls; he designed the furniture and the candlesticks, the silver and the decanters for the table; he was as ready to produce a snuff-box as a watch case or a sword hilt.

Not only in France, but for the nobility of Poland, Portugal and other countries who took their fashions and their taste from Paris, he made designs. His work in gold and silver-plate was often graceful and sometimes bold and original. He was least successful in furniture, where his twirls and convolutions, his floral and rocaille motives were conspicuous. He was appointed by Louis XV Dessinateur de la chambre et du cabinet du roi; the post of designer pour les pompes funèbres et galantes was also held along with that of Orfèvre du roi.

For our knowledge of his work we are considerably indebted to his own books of design: Livres d'ornements en trente pieces and Ornements de la carte chronologique.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• "Designs for the Palace and Church of the Order of the Holy Spirit, Paris, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1727-31". Architecture. Victoria and Albert Museum. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/Objects_in_architecture/meissonnier/index.html. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 

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