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Detaille Jean-Baptiste-Edouard
(1848—1912)

Parisian Academic painter. He studied under Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. He was born into a prosperous family from Picardy with a military background, his grandfather having served as an arms supplier to Napoleon. Détaille’s early interest in art was encouraged by his father, an amateur artist and friend of collectors and painters,... More...

Comoren Islands, 1989, General Kellerman and Battle of Valmy

Sierra Leone, 1989, Revolutionaries in Paris