FreeThe White Smoker
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
Title
The White Smoker
Artist
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
Date
1855
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
5 1/4 × 4 in. (13.3 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of Francis T. B. Martin
Object Number
1995.42
On View
On view
Louis Meyer, before 1913 [1];
His sale in Dresden to a private collector, Leipzig, Germany 1913;
Their sale to Dr. D. Heinemann Galleries, Munich, Germany, before 1932;
Purchased from Dr. D. Heinemann Galleries by Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, September 30, 1932–38;
His gift to his nephew Francis T. B. Martin (1904–1995), Omaha, Nebraska, August 29, 1938–1995;
Bequeathed by Francis T. B. Martin Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1995.
[1] Likely acquired during the mid-nineteenth century by Meyer, a Russian collector. Undated provenance summary sheet, Joslyn Art Museum, Object File.
Théophile Gautier, “Salon de 1849,” La Presse, August 8, 1849.
Emil Waldmann, "Gie Meyesche Gealdesammlung in Dresden,” in Mitteilungen aus den Sächsische Kunstsammlungen, vol. 4 (Leipzig, Germany: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1913), 85.
Constance Cain Hungerford, Ernest Meissonier: Master in His Genre (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 60, 224.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 142–143, (repro.).