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An image of Vive L'Empereur

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
Painting
Medium
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
Source unknown, Purchased by the AGNSW in Paris 1893
Bibliography (7)

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

Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2003 (2003), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Look (Nov 2002), Jill Sykes (Australia) (Editor), 10pm [print management] (Australia), Newtown, New South Wales, Australia.

Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition (1984), Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The Boy Adeodatus (1984), Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Penguin Books Limited (England), Australia.

Edouard Detaille l'heroisme d'un siècle (1979), Jean Humbert (Author), Copernic, Paris, France.

Detaille (1898), Marius Vachon (Author), Lahure (France), Paris, France.

Exhibition history (3)

Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, (15 Nov 1984–May 1985), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.

Unknown, Union Artistique, (Unknown–Unknown), at Union Artistique.

Unknown, Duval's, (Unknown–Unknown), at Duval's (England), London, England, United Kingdom.