A Solider Of Algiers By Edouard Detaille In 1882 (Supplement To The Illustrated American)

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This piece is over 120 years old.

Edouard Detaille, in full Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille, grew up in a prosperous military family in Picardy; his grandfather had been an arms dealer for Napoleon. Detaille's father was an amateur artist who was friends with many collectors and painters, including Horace Vernet and he encouraged his son's artistic endeavors. His father asked Meissonier if he could introduce his son to Alexandre Cabanel for an art education. At the young age of seventeen, he began his training under the prestigious military painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.

Edouard Detaille made his debut as an artist at the 1867 Salon with a painting of his teacher's studio. At the Salon of 1868, Edouard Detaille exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based on his imagination of the French Revolution. With Repose During the Drill and Camp St Maur, which he debuted the following year, Detaille established his reputation as a military painter.

Detaille enlisted in the French Army's 8th Mobile Battalion when the Franco-Prussian War started in 1870; in a short time, he was seeing and experiencing war for real. This experience allowed him to produce his celebrated portraits of soldiers and accurate depictions of military maneuvers, uniforms, and military life in general. In the 1890s, Edouard Detaille painted an ever increasing number of oil paintings inspired by the Napoleonic wars. He used period uniforms regalia to perfect the accuracy of his paintings.

In 1912, Edouard Detaille created new uniforms for the French army. They were rejected by the Minister of War, but the blue-gray great coats he designed would influence later World War I French uniforms. During his life, he had amassed an impressive collection of military uniforms and artifacts for his paintings research and bequeathed it all to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris following his death.

The Illustrated American was a weekly American periodical published from 1890 until 1900. It primarily covered current events (with illustrations), but also contained other miscellaneous content and some fiction.

The publication has been described as the first photographic weekly news magazine in the United States. It was first published on February 22, 1890, out of offices located in New York City, selling for 25 cents an issue, or 10 dollars per year. The price dropped to a more competitive 10 cents per issue after 1892.

Publisher Lorillard Spencer fronted the money for the new publication, and was its owner until 1897, when it was sold to a group led by Amédée Baillot de Guerville, who in turn sold the publication to Patterson and Roland Burke Hennessey. The publication's circulation reached 40,000 by 1892, but declined after Spencer sold it, and it last appeared in 1900.

Francis Bellamy, author of the American Pledge of Allegiance, was among its editors.

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12" x 16.25"

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