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Édouard Detaille

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Test uniforms created in 1912 by Édouard Detaille for the French line infantry. From left to right: trumpet in parade uniform, private in service uniform and kepi, private 1st class in parade uniform, private in service uniform and leather helmet, officer in parade uniform, officer in service uniform
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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.
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broke out in 1870; by November he was seeing and experiencing the realities of war. This experience allowed him to produce his famed
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During his life, he had amassed an impressive collection of military uniforms and artifacts. He bequeathed the collection to the
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and bonnet de police (side cap), private in field uniform and leather helmet, private in field uniform and kepi.
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noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army".
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Detaille appears as a guest at a party at the home of the Princesse de Guermante in Part Two: Chapter One of
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which shows soldiers asleep on a battlefield dreaming of military glory. The painting, which is in the
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Dearinger, David Bernard; Stanley Ellis Cushing (2004). Virginia Wageman; Phil Freshman (eds.).
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In 1912, Detaille created new uniforms for the French army. They were never adopted by the
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in 1885, which contains over 300 line drawings and 20 color reproductions of his works.
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Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925
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Les grenadiers à cheval à la bataille d'Eylau : Haut les têtes (le colonel Lepic)
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Cavaliers de remonte Commis - Cavriers Secretaire et Infirmiers
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Detaille was one of the first artists to buy photographs from
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of soldiers and historically accurate depictions of military
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Honorary Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
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Detaille enlisted in the 8th Mobile Bataillon of the
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French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War
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Yale University Press. p.  202:with three other young painters, 808:19th-century French male artists 763:20th-century French male artists 706: 499: 484: 469: 454: 439: 422: 405: 385: 370: 358: 329:by Eric Karpeles, published by 204:Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour 612:"Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)" 477:Carabiniers à Cheval en Russie 135:[ʒɑ̃batist‿edwaʁdətaj] 127:Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille 1: 662:. Taschen. 2008. p. 82. 551:Edouard Detaille and his work 246:. He published a book called 758:20th-century French painters 748:19th-century French painters 169:Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier 824: 325:in Paris, also appears in 155:Education and early career 507:Sortie de la garrison de 41: 778:19th-century war artists 560:, Paris, J. 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Index

Edouard Detaille

The Defense of Champigny
Le Rêve
Academic art
[ʒɑ̃batist‿edwaʁdətaj]
academic
military artist
Picardy
Horace Vernet
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Alexandre Cabanel
Salon
Académie des Beaux-Arts
French Revolution
Algeria
Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour
Alexander Louis Leloir
Jehan Georges Vibert
French Army
Franco-Prussian War
portraits
manoeuvres
uniforms
battles
Eugène Atget

Minister of War
World War I
Adrian helmet

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