Lot 504
Edouard Jean Baptiste Detaille (1848-1912)
Lot 504 Details
Edouard Jean Baptiste Detaille (1848-1912), French
AT THE MANOEUVRES, 1899
Oil on cradled panel; signed and dated 1899 lower left, titled to a catalogue description attached to the verso that reads:
'Before a gabled barn are two dragoons in red and green uniforms, an officer astride a roan horse and a trumpeter dismounted and sponging down the legs of a gray. In the fields behind, in the right middle distance, other soldiers of the same troop moving away from the observer across the grass'
17 x 21.75 in — 43.2 x 55.2 cm
Estimate $6,000-$8,000
Additional Images
Provenance:
With an unidentified typeset label attached to the verso where this lot is titled: 'At the Manoeuvres', with a description of the scene, entered as, Cat. No. 36;
Schweitzer Gallery, New York, New York stamp to the centre stretcher;
Frederick W. Thom Limited, Toronto gallery label verso;
Private Collection, Toronto