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An image of Vive L'Empereur by Edouard Detaille

Edouard Detaille

(France 1848–1912)

Title
Vive L'Empereur
Other titles:
Charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807
Alternative title:
Vive L'Empereur charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807
Year
1891
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

376.0 x 445.0cm stretcher; 370.0 x 437.5cm sight edge; 445.0 x 512.5 x 14.0cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r, "Edouard Detaille 1891".
Credit
Purchased 1893
Accession number
4560
Location
19th & 20th c European art
Provenance (1)

Source unknown, Purchased by the AGNSW in Paris 1893

Bibliography (7)

Richard Holmes (Author), The Napoleonic Wars experience, 2006, (illus.).

'Director's report' pg.6-9, Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2003 2003, 2003, 7 (colour illus.).

'Salvation of a neglected work' by Stewart Laidler and Craig Wilcox, pg.18-19, Look Nov 2002, Nov 2002, 18-19, 18 (colour illus.).

Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Domain, 1984, (illus.). no catalogue numbers

Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), The Boy Adeodatus, Australia, 1984, 179.

Edouard Detaille l'heroisme d'un siècle 1979, 1979. plate no. 26

Marius Vachon (Author), Detaille, Paris, 1898, 143.

Exhibition history (3)

Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985.

Unknown, Union Artistique, Union Artistique, Unknown–Unknown.

Unknown, Duval's, Duval's, Unknown–Unknown.