Charles Emmanuel Claudius Meissonier was a French painter. He is the son and pupil of the painter Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). Charles Meissonier began painting thanks to his father Ernest Meissonier who initiated him in his studio in Poissy then, in 1860, became a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme while continuing to receive his father’s artistic education. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1865 with a work called L’Atelier. He painted genre scenes in the Dutch manner like his father, but even more influenced by naturalism, as well as landscapes. He married Jeanne Gros in 1868. Domiciled in Poissy, he died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on February 5, 1917. Most of his paintings are kept at the Museum of Art and History in Poissy.