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DETAILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE
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See also:DETAILLE, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE $DOUARD (1848-WA) ), See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 5th of See also:October 1848. After working as a See also:pupil of See also:Meissonier's, he first exhibited, in the See also:Salon of 1867, a picture representing " A Corner of Meissonier's Studio." Military See also:life was from the first a See also:principal attraction to the See also:young painter, and he gained his reputation by depicting the scenes of a soldier's life with every detail truthfully rendered. He exhibited "A See also:Halt " (1868); " Soldiers at See also:rest, during the Manoeuvres at the See also:Camp of See also:Saint Maur " (1869); " Engagement between See also:Cossacks and the Imperial Guard, 1814" (187o). The See also:war of 187o-71 furnished him with a See also:series of subjects 'which gained him repeated successes. Among his more important pictures may be named " The Conquerors " (1872); " The See also:Retreat " (1873) ; " The See also:Charge of the 9th See also:Regiment of See also:Cuirassiers in the See also:Village of Morsbronn, 6th See also:August 187o " (1874); " The Marching Regiment, Paris, See also:December 1874 " (1875); " A See also:Reconnaissance " (1876); "See also:Hail to the Wounded!" (1877); " See also:Bonaparte in See also:Egypt " (1878); the " Inauguration of the New See also:Opera See also:House "—a See also:water-See also:colour; the " See also:Defence of Champigny by Faron's See also:Division " (1879). He also worked with See also:Alphonse de See also:Neuville on the See also:panorama of Rezonville. In 1884 he exhibited at the Salon the " Evening at Rezonville," a panoramic study, and " The See also:Dream " (1888), now in the See also:Luxemburg. Detaille recorded other events in the military See also:history of his See also:country: the " Sortie of the See also:Garrison of Huningue " (now in the Luxemburg), the " Vincendon See also:Brigade," and " Bizerte," reminiscences of the expedition to See also:Tunis. After a visit to See also:Russia, Detaille exhibited " The Cossacks of the Ataman " and " The Hereditary See also:Grand See also:Duke at the See also:Head of the Hussars of the Guard." Other important See also:works are: " Victims to See also:Duty," " The See also:Prince of See also:Wales and the Duke of See also:Connaught" and "See also:Pasteur's Funeral." In his picture of " Chalons, 9th October 1896," exhibited in the Salon, 1898, Detaille painted the See also:emperor and empress of Russia at a See also:review, with M. See also:Felix See also:Faure. Detaille became a member of the French See also:Institute in 1898. See See also:Marius Vachon, Detaille (Paris, 1898) ; See also:Frederic See also:Masson, Edouard Detaille and his See also:work (Paris and See also:London, 1891) ; J. See also:Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains (Paris, 1876); G. Goetschy. See also:Les Jeunes peintres militaires (Paris, 1878). DETAINER(from detain, See also:Lat. detinere); in See also:law, the See also:act of keeping a See also:person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or See also:personal See also:property. A See also:writ of detainer was a See also:form for the beginning of a personal See also:action against a person already lodged within the walls of a See also:prison; it was superseded by the See also:Judgment Act 1838. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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