Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 13, 1892, lot 29;
Guy Loudmer, Paris;
Acquired from the above.

Paris, La Société du Panorama National de la rue de Berri, 1882;
Tampa, The Tampa Museum, Call to Arms!: Édouard Detaille and his Contemporaries, January 18-March 29, 1981;
New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, 1870: The Big Picture, April 25-September 25, 1989.

François Robichon, "Les Panoramas de Detaille et De Neuville," Bulletin de la Société d'histoire, de l'art Français, 1979, Ch.10, illustrated;
François Robichon, Édouard Detaille: Un Siècle de Gloire Militaire, Paris, 2007, p. 44, illustrated.

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in overall good condition. There are some repaired tears, one in each quadrant of the painting. There is some pressed craquelure and paint shrinkage. There are noticable stretcherbar marks. Under UV;
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Two pencil studies for the cart on sketchbook paper framed as one drawing, each with a Detaille estate stamp and each measuring 4 1/4 by 7 in. accompanies this lot. On the verso of one sheet is a sketch of two soldiers on horseback in pen and ink over pencil.

Please see the catalogue note to Lot 491 describing the Panorama of the Battle of Champigny.

Note: See lot 500 for the placement of this painting within the panorama.