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Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

French, 1848-1912
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (Paris 5 October 1848 – 23 December 1912 Paris) was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. Detaille grew up in a prosperous military family in Picardy; his grandfather had been an arms supplier for Napoleon. An amateur artist who was friends with a number of collectors and painters, including Horace Vernet, Detaille's father encouraged his son's artistic endeavors. He began his artistic studies at age seventeen under the famous military painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier; he had originally approached him to ask for an introduction to the renowned Alexandre Cabanel but Meissonier decided to teach Detaille himself. Meissonier became a major influence on his style, and it was he who inculcated an appreciation for accuracy and precision in Detaille. Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon—the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts—of 1867 with a painting of Meissonier's studio. At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution. With Repose During the Drill, Camp St Maur, which he debuted the following year, Detaille established his reputation as a painter. In the spring of 1870, he went on a "sketching trip" to Algeria with three other young painters, Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour, Alexander Louis Leloir, and Jehan Georges Vibert. Detaille enlisted in the 8th Mobile Bataillon of the French Army when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870; by November he was seeing and experiencing the realities of war. This experience allowed him to produce his famed portraits of soldiers and historically accurate depictions of military manoeuvres, uniforms, and military life in general. He eventually became the official painter of the battles. He published a book called L'Armée Française in 1885, which contains over 300 line drawings and 20 color reproductions of his works. Detaille was one of the first artists to buy photographs from Eugène Atget. In 1912, Detaille created new uniforms for the French army. They were never adopted by the Minister of War, but the blue-gray greatcoats would influence later French World War I uniforms, and the Adrian helmet was heavily influenced by his designs. During his life, he had amassed an impressive collection of military uniforms and artifacts and bequeathed to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris following his death. Detaille appears as a guest at a party at the home of the Princesse de Guermantes in Part Two: Chapter One of Marcel Proust's novel, Cities of the Plain, where Detaille is referred to as "the creator of the Dream", his 1888 painting also known as Le Rêve (The dream) which shows soldiers asleep on a battlefield dreaming of military glory. The painting, which is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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Artist: Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Vintage french art painting by Edouard Detaille - tempera on carton, signed.
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in PARIS, FR
Tempera on cardboard mounted on an original canvas and original glass. 19th century. Interesting and well accomplished study for Nature probably in eastern France. Dimensions with fr...
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Late 19th Century Realist Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Gouache

Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, drawing
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, viewed of the back bears the monogram ED but it is not visible because it is hidden by the mounting of the frame...
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1880s Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Ink

Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) Soldiers, a study, ink on wood
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Soldiers, a study Black ink on a wood panel 12.5 x 13 cm Framed : 20 x 20.5 cm On the back of the panel a label inscribed "Dessin à la plume par Detaill...
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1880s Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Ink

Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), The Young Paperboy, signed watercolor
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) The Young Paperboy 16.5 x 20.5 cm Watercolor and brown ink on paper Signed lower right In good condition, the paper is slightly yellowed by time, some o...
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1880s Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Watercolor, Ink

Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival character, original signed Drawing
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) A Carnival character and a Zouave 19.5 x 12.5 cm Pen and ink on paper Signed lower left with the initials (faded) In a modern framing : 35 x 28 cm T...
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1880s Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Ink

Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A trophy of arms, original signed Drawing
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) A trophy of arms 11.5 x 20 cm Pen and ink with heightenings of white gouache on paper Signed and dated 1885 lower right and annotated "Armée française...
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1880s Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Ink

Napoleon III-Review At The Camp Of Chalon-sur-Saone, gouache, signed lower right
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in PARIS, FR
This artwork might be one of the two versions, the other one being in the Museum of Army in les Invalides Paris (book). This version has a more accomplished academic style. Dimensio...
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Late 19th Century Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Gouache

Tambour du 42° Regiment D'Highlanders - Lithograph End of 19th Century
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Roma, IT
Tambour du 42° Regiment D'Highlanders is an original print realized in the second half of XIX century by Édouard Detaille Original colored lithograph. Quite good conditions except for foxings along the margin and a fold on the higher left margin. The artwork is from the Revue illustrée and printed by Gillot. Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (1848-1912) was a French academic painter and military artist known for his accurate portrayals of battles and military life. In fact, Detaille developed a wide knowledge of military detail, which made his work an important source for the study of late-19th-century military history...
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Late 19th Century Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Lithograph

Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A Carnival scene, watercolor signed
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) A carnival scene 21 x 16.5 cm Watercolor and brown ink on paper Signed lower right Period frame : 35 x 30 cm (lacks in...
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1880s Academic Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Art

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Ink, Watercolor

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Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), Seven historic and comic drawings, framed together
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Soldier - Original Watercolor Lithograph by Édouard Detaille - 1882
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Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A bourgeois and a nanny, two framed drawings
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Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), Soldiers studies, seven drawings in the same frame
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