Wednesday 29 March 2023
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille, French 1848-1912- A Grenadier Guard playing the fife; pen and...
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Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille,
French 1848-1912-
A Grenadier Guard playing the fife;
pen and black ink, and grey and black wash on paper, signed and dated 'EDOUARD DETAILLE / 1880.' (lower left), bears old typed and inscribed label on the reverse, 26 x 16 cm.
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1937 (according to label verso).
Private Collection, UK.
Note:
Detaille trained under the pre-eminent military artist in 19th-century France, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891), which inevitably influenced his own depictions of military figures. Indeed, Detaille was particularly celebrated for his extremely detailed representations of soldiers, which were presumably also shaped by his own experiences of serving in the French army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The present work is a sympathetic portrait of a British soldier from the Grenadier Guards, immediately recognisable by his bearskin hat with white plume. The soldier is caught in a moment of contemplation as he takes a brief pause from playing his fife.
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