Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Battles and soldiers, four drawings Pencil on paper Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (Paris 5 October 1848 – 23 December 1912 Paris) was a French academi...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) A soldier and riders, 1881 Signed, dated and dedicated "à Monsieur de Themines, bien cordialement Edouard Detaille Juillet 1881" 15.3 x 300 cm Pen and i...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Two drawings : - General writing using his hat as a writing desk and Hussar covered with laurels announcing the victory of Rivoli. annotated by the hand...

Original pen and India ink drawing on heavy card stock of French soldiers on horseback by the well known French military artist, Edouard Detaille. Signed lower left and dated 1882. ...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Study of a horse 12.7 x 12.7 cm Pencil on paper Stamp of Detaille's estate lower right In a modern frame : 27 x 27 cm This is a particularly interesting and original study because in this work the artist has endeavoured to draw the head of a horse from the rear viewpoint, that of the rider. This is a drawing that the artist used to prepare his finished works; we see him at work here and we can better perceive his method of using studies taken on the spot to be as close as possible to reality. We really have the feeling of being close to this horse chosen by the artist as a model. 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...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Three studies of horses 16 x 10 cm Pen and ink on paper Signed lower left The third study on the lower right has been ...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1812) Historic and comic drawings Set of seven drawings in the same frame 5 of them with the monogram ED Black pencil and for one of them watercolor 11 x 7 cm...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1812) A bourgeois and a nanny Two drawings in the same frame Black pencil and pen and black ink 11 x 6.5 cm and 15.5 x 6 cm In the same frame on a green back...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1812) Soldiers studies Set of seven small drawings in the same frame Soldiers of various eras, two of them monogrammed ED Black pencil and for one of them pen ...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Studies of horseguards 14 x 8.5 cm Pen and ink on paper Bears the monogram ED lower left Period frame : 42 x 33.5 cm (...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Cavalier of the guard Pen and black ink on pencil 22 x 15.5 cm Bears the stamp of the Estate of the artist on the lower left Modern frame : 36 x 29.5 c...

Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) Three studies of different type of horse soldiers in the same mount 8 x 6.7 cm 8 x 14 cm 9.5 x 8 cm Pencil on paper The bigg...