Detaille, Passing Regiment, Paris, engraved Goupil 1881
"The Passing Regiment" ["Le Regiment qui passe; Porte St. Martin"], by Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille, engraved and etched by Goupil, 1881; printed on heavy stock paper; signed in plate "E. Detaille, Pinx." and "Gravure Goupil et Cie." From the Original Painting in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Heavy stock paper, design 7.7/8" x 8" [200mm x 220mm], the entire plate 11.1/2" x c.15.1/8" [290mm x 383mm]; a little foxing, very good condition. An additional sheet with the explanatory text by Goupil is present.
Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army".
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.
In 1867, Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon, the official art exhibition of the Academie des Beaux Arts 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, Etienne-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'Armee Francaise in 1885, which contains over 300 line drawings and 20 color reproductions of his works. 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.
In 1870s-1890s, Goupil & Cie were the leading art dealers in 19th century France, with headquarters in Paris and a network of branches in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Vienna, as well as in New York and Australia. Instrumental for this expansion was the "Ateliers Photographiques", a plant north of Paris, in Asnieres, which took up its work in 1869. The photogravures created in this plant dominated the world art market of 1880s-1890s.
The creation of the photogravure plate was a complicated process requiring a work by a photographer and experienced master-engraver. First, a copper plate was coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph. It is a manual process. Therefore, the quality of the photogravure depends on the masterly execution by the engraver.
Due to relative softness of copper, the editions of photogravures were limited to a few thousand copies similarly to copper engravings and etchings.
Artwork will be mailed unframed.
Note:
Country restrictions may apply - the lesser expansive Priority or 1st Class shipping may not be available to all countries.
US: Priority (c.2-5 days) ------------ $20.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-6 weeks) ------ $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $32.50
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"The Passing Regiment" ["Le Regiment qui passe; Porte St. Martin"], by Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille, engraved and etched by Goupil, 1881; printed on heavy stock paper; signed in plate "E. Detaille, Pinx." and "Gravure Goupil et Cie." From the Original Painting in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Heavy stock paper, design 7.7/8" x 8" [200mm x 220mm], the entire plate 11.1/2" x c.15.1/8" [290mm x 383mm]; a little foxing, very good condition. An additional sheet with the explanatory text by Goupil is present.
Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army".
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.
In 1867, Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon, the official art exhibition of the Academie des Beaux Arts 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, Etienne-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'Armee Francaise in 1885, which contains over 300 line drawings and 20 color reproductions of his works. 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.
In 1870s-1890s, Goupil & Cie were the leading art dealers in 19th century France, with headquarters in Paris and a network of branches in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Vienna, as well as in New York and Australia. Instrumental for this expansion was the "Ateliers Photographiques", a plant north of Paris, in Asnieres, which took up its work in 1869. The photogravures created in this plant dominated the world art market of 1880s-1890s.
The creation of the photogravure plate was a complicated process requiring a work by a photographer and experienced master-engraver. First, a copper plate was coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph. It is a manual process. Therefore, the quality of the photogravure depends on the masterly execution by the engraver.
Due to relative softness of copper, the editions of photogravures were limited to a few thousand copies similarly to copper engravings and etchings.
Artwork will be mailed unframed.
Note:
Country restrictions may apply - the lesser expansive Priority or 1st Class shipping may not be available to all countries.
US: Priority (c.2-5 days) ------------ $20.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-6 weeks) ------ $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $32.50
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