Brigham City Bugler | 1891-07-18 | Page 3 | Meissonier's Posthumous Works

SleUnonler'S' FostbamoDs Works. It is not known yet what will be done with all the unfinished pictures left in Meissonier's studios. They represent a fortune, for many of them, whicii were condemned by the fastidious taste of the painter himself, will soon be in the hands of the dealers and heralded as masterpieces. master-pieces. Most of the sketches and mere studies, one need not doubt, will turn ont full fledged paintings by the time they reach the amateur. One can but remember what happened after Dau-bigny's Dau-bigny's death and after Millet's death. Each hud a son who painted, and much of the work of those sons is dearly cherished today in hundreds of cabinets in America and elsewhere as that of the illustrious fathers. The posthumous paintings of Meissonier will probably be numerous, but it is only right to add that the high character of Mr. Charles Mcissonicr may be considered a guarantee, guaran-tee, so far as his personal influence can go, for tho integrity of the artistic remains re-mains of his distinguished father. Art Amateur.