Charles Meynier
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Charles Meynier (1763, Paris - 1832, Paris) was a French painter. A student of François-André Vincent, Meynier won the second prize in the 1789 prix de Rome competition. He made designs for the bas-reliefs and statues on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and was, from 1816 onward, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
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- He made nine canvases of the Muses, commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède, now held at château de Wallenreid in Switzerland, (Jura). General Castella de Berlens, during a stay in Paris, bought these works.
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