Superb view of the CAVALRY (Artillery) at the end of the XIXth century

- Colour engraving dating the 19th century (after a painting by Edouard Detaille) - Size : 36 cm x 27 cm (margins included) - Excellent condition (without foxing - remarkably clean) . [The fisrt photo shows all the engraving, including margins (to visualize the size of the engraving, the size of the margins and layout of the engraving compared to its margins)]

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 painting relates to the realism and naturalism. Detaille painted slowly and methodically, so as to produce as realistic and accurate as possible works.

- Gravure en couleur du 19eme siècle (d'après une peinture d'Edouard Detaille) - Taille : 36 cm x 27 cm (marges incluses) - Excellent état (sans rousseur - rare aussi propre). [La première photo montre toute la gravure, marges incluses (afin de visualiser la taille de la gravure, la taille de ses marges et la disposition de la gravure par rapport à ses marges)]

(A-13-51)