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Meissonier-like Exactness

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, R.A., a French artist, born at Lyons, 1813, exhibited in 1836 a microscopic painting called Petit Messager, and became proverbial for the utmost possible precision.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.