1870
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Soldier with Upraised Arm is a 1870 by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a soldier standing with his arm up, wearing old-fashioned clothes. He's dressed in a French uniform from the 1800s. The soldier's uniform and the way he's posed make this painting interesting because it shows a lot of detail about what soldiers wore back then. You can look up the technique of chiaroscuro to learn more about how artists like this one used light and dark to create depth in their paintings.
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was a French academic painter and sculptor. He became famous for his depictions of Napoleon and his military sieges and manoeuvres in paintings acclaimed both for the artist's mastery of…
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