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Lot 293

Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille, French 1848-1912-  A Grenadier Guard playing the fife;  pen and...

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Lot 293

Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille, 
French 1848-1912- 
A Grenadier Guard playing the fife; 
pen and...

Price Realised: £1,560

Estimate: £200 - £400

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (30% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 293

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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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The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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