A Mounted Officer

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1877

Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French, 1848–1912)

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Title: A Mounted Officer
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1877
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Edouard Detaille / 1870
Dimensions: 46.5 × 38.2 cm (19 1/4 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1050
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“Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 56, no. 18.
“The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
“Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 65, no. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 72, no. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 92, no. 18.
William M. R. French, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: I. Introduction,” Brush and Pencil 1, 4 (1898), pp. 81, 83 (ill.); reprinted, Charles Francis Browne, Brush and Pencil: A Magazine of Art, September 1897–March 1898, vol. 1 (Chicago: Phillips & Company, 1898), p. vi.
“Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 159, no. 118.
Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), pp. 712, n.p. ill..
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 165, no. 118.
Karl Baedeker, The United States with an Excursion to Mexico: Handbook for Travellers, 3rd ed. (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Firm, 1904), p. 351, no. 118; revised 4th edition, (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Firm, 1909), p. 372, no. 118.
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, L’art moderne (Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, 1908), pp. 76–77.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 169, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 113, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 117, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 117, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 23, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 23, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 23, no. 118.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 134, no. 118.
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South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame, The University Art Gallery, The Great Century: France, 1800–1900, November 8–29, 1959, no cat. no.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, November 1, 1993–January 9, 1994, no cat. no.

Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

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