Shop art print and framed art Avant la charge, les carabiniers à Winkowo by Edouard Detaille

Vive L'Empereur! is an historical painting made retrospectively by French artist Édouard Detaille in 1891, based upon the cavalry charge of the French 4th Hussars during the Battle of Friedland. The actual battle had taken place on 14 June 1807, some 41 years before the artist's birth. The painting was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1893, where it still remains. In 1959, the painting was damaged severely by water, but it was restored during the 2000s. In June 2014, the Art Gallery of New South Wales purchased Portrait of Édouard Detaille by Basile Lemeunier (1852–1922), which shows Detaille at work in his studio – painting Vive L'Empereur! – atop a wooden ladder with a lit cigarette in his mouth. The portrait was exhibited at the Paris Salon in [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the academism style.

 

« Avant la charge, les carabiniers à Winkowo » is kept at Musée de l'Armée, Paris, France.

 

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