欧内斯特Meissonier出生在里昂。他的父亲，查尔斯曾经是一位成功的商人，在圣但尼，巴黎以北，对于纺织行业做出染料工厂的东主。他预计欧内斯特，最年长的他的两个儿子，跟随他进入染料业务。[1]然而，从他的学生时代欧内斯特表现出对绘画的味道，到一些早期草图，日期1823年，见证。被放置在一个药剂师后，街宫伦巴第，17岁，他获得了他的父母离开成为一名艺术家。下面一个名为博天画家，自己是第二类的建议罗马大奖，他考入莱昂Cogniet的工作室。他也形成了自己的风格后，荷兰大师作为代表卢浮宫。

Ernest Meissonier was born in lyon. His father, Charles was a successful businessman in Saint Denis, north of Paris, for the textile industry to make dye factory owners. He expects Ernest, the eldest of his two sons, to follow him into the dye business. [1], however, from his student days Ernest showed a taste for painting, to some early sketches, dated 1823, witness. After being placed in a chemist's street palace in Lombardy, aged 17, he got his parents away to become an artist. The following is called a day painter, he is the second category of the proposed Rome Grand Prix, he was admitted to Leon Cogniet studio. He also formed his own style after the Holland master as a representative of Le Louvre museum.