Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille
“Champigny”
1878
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Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille
“Champigny”
1878
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink over graphite on paper, Sheet: 234 × 268 mm. (9 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.12736
Drawing preparatory to the reproduction by Gillot of Detaille's Salon entry showing soldiers barricading a gate.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, in ink, 'EDOUARD DETAILLE / 1879 / Champigny / à monsieur Lucas / cordialement / E.D.'; LR, in ink, 'Prière à Monsieur Gillot d'attenuer les traits de plume qui sont / pour le ciel, pourqu'ils ne viennent pas trop noirs [?] à la reproduction / E. Detaille'
