Edouard Detaille

OctEdouard Detaille was born in Paris on October 5, 1848, and died in Paris on December 23, 1912.¹

Detaille began his artistic studies at age seventeen under the famous military painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.¹

Edouard Detaille made his artistic debut at the Salon in 1867 with a painting of Meissonier's studio.¹

Edouard Detaille enlisted in the French Army at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and experienced the realities of war.¹

The Defense of Champigny (1879) is one of Detaille's notable works.¹

Le Rêve (1888) is a famous painting by Detaille, also mentioned in Marcel Proust's novel.¹

In 1912, Detaille created designs for new uniforms for the French army.¹