Charles Meynier

Charles Meynier studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under François-André Vincent is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are The soldiers of the 76th line find their flags in Innsbruck arsenal. Work by Charles Meynier is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Brussels City Museum, Palace of Versailles, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle d'Alençon and Musée de l'Histoire de France.

Meynier was the son of a tailor. Already at a young age he was trained by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. As a student of François-André Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome competition; Girodet won. He became a member of the Académie de France à Rome. In 1793 he went back to Paris. He made designs for the bas-reliefs and statues on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Paris Bourse. From 1816 onward, he was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1819 Meynier was appointed teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts. Like his wife he died of cholera.

"Milo of Croton", 1795 Oil on Canvas Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Quebec Five canvases of the Muses, commissioned by François Boyer-Fonfrède, but after his bankruptcy they were purchased by General Nicolas Antoine Xavier Castella de Berlens and transferred to his château de Wallenried in Jura, Switzerland, where they remained for roughly 180 years. They were subsequently transferred to the Cleveland Museum of Art, where conservator Dean Yoder dedicated five years to cleaning and in-painting the damaged works. They are currently on public display in Cleveland. Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy, 1798, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, 1798, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Clio, Muse of History, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Napoleon in Berlin, 1810, Palace of Versailles Wisdom Defending Youth from the Arrows of Love, 1810, National Gallery of Canada