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(Jeannine Dumas) – Édouard DETAILLE.
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173
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(Jeannine Dumas) – Édouard DETAILLE.
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
(Jeannine Dumas) – Édouard DETAILLE. A man on horseback wearing a red frock coat and armed with a pistol (Dumas during his journey to the Caucasus?).
Oil on wood. 140 x 118 mm. Black, weathered wooden frame.
Detaille inscribed the work: ‘To Mademoiselle Jeannine Dumas. Yours respectfully, Edouard Detaille’.
Detaille (1848–1912), a military painter and pupil of Meissonier, was a close friend of the Dumas family. He painted the portrait of Alexandre Dumas the Younger on his deathbed, which is now in the collection of the Carnavalet Museum.
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