JUSTE See also:

• MEISSONIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST (1815–1891)
• JUSTE MEISSONIER

MEISSONIER  AUR$LE (1695-1750), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold-See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

smith, sculptor, painter, architect, and See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture designer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• TURIN

Turin, but became known as a worker in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where he died . His See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian origin and training were probably responsible for the extravagance of his decorative See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style . He shared, and perhaps distanced, the meretricious triumphs of Oppenard and Germain, since he dealt with the See also:

• BAROQUE

Baroque in its most daring and flamboyant developments . Rarely does he leave a See also:

• FOOT

foot or two of undecorated space; the effect of the whole is futile and fatiguing . It was because See also:

• MEISSONIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST (1815–1891)
• MEISSONIER, JUSTE

Meissonier carried the style of his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day to its extreme that he acquired so vast a popularity . Like the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam at a later day he not only as architect built houses, but as painter and decorator covered their See also:

• INTERNAL

internal walls; he designed the furniture and the candlesticks, the See also:

• SILVER

silver and the decanters for the table; he was as ready to produce a See also:

• SNUFF (from " to snuff, " i.e. to inhale, to draw in through the nose; cf. Dutch snuf, scent, Ger. Schnupfen, a cold, catarrh, and Eng. " snuffle, " " sniff, " &c.)

snuff-See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box as a See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case or a See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword hilt . Not only in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, but for the See also:

• NOBILITY

nobility of See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland, See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal and other countries who took their fashions and their See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste from Paris, he made designs, which did nothing to improve See also:

• EUROPEAN

European taste . Yet his achievement was not wholly without merit . His See also:

• WORK

work in gold and silver-See also:

• PLATE

plate was often graceful and some-times bold and See also:

• ORIGINAL

original . He was least successful in furniture, where his twirls and convolutions, his floral and rocaille motives were conspicuously offensive . He was appointed by See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XV . Dessinateur de la chambre et du See also:

• CABINET

cabinet du roi; the See also:

• POST

post of designer pour See also:

• LES

les pompes funebres et galantes was also held along with that of Orfevre du roi .

For our knowledge of his work we are considerably indebted to his own books of See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design: Livre, d'ornements en trente pieces; Livre d'orfevrerie d'eglise en six pieces, and Ornements de la See also:

• CARTE, THOMAS (1686-1754)

carte chronologique .