Polychrome Engraving Enhanced With Watercolor Representing A Sailor Of The Marine Infantry Full Dress Signed édouard Detaille.

- Polychrome engraving enhanced with watercolor representing a marine infantry sailor signed in the decor Édouard Détail (1848-1912) and dated 1887 and letters FS for facsimile.
- Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille born in Paris on October 5, 1848 and died in Paris on December 23, 1912 at the age of 64 is an academic painter
  French, specialist in military painting.
- A pupil of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, he entered Meissonier's studio at the age of 17.
- Meticulous Meissonier decides to teach Detaille himself.
- Meissonier had a major influence on his style and it was he who instilled in him an appreciation for accuracy, precision and attention to detail in
  his paints.
- He exhibited for the first time at the salon of the society of French artists in 1867, Detaille received numerous awards at the salon of the society
  French artists in 1869,1870,1872,1888 and Grand Prix at the universal exhibitions of 1889 and 1900.
- He exhibited his works at the Salon of the Society of French Artists from 1867 to 1912 until his death in December 1912.
- Detaille's painting is linked to realism and naturalism, Detaille painted in a methodical way in order to produce realistic works,
  precise and detailed as much as possible.
- Several of his paintings are exhibited in French museums (Orsay, army museum, etc.).
- He lived in Ville-D'avray Haut-de-seine (92) in the Ile de France region, he is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery (66th division).
- The artist's studio background has been kept at the Army Museum in Paris since 1915.
- Engraving framed under glass with a molded frame in gilded wood and a gold-coloured Maryse.
- Period 19th around 1887-1890.