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Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet (1854-1912)Note to Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
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(Not available at present) ABOUT EDOUARD DETAILLE (1848-1912)
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) was the official painter of the French battles. He enlisted in the French army during the1870 war. He liked the military life, which ultimately became the main subject of his work. He maintained accuracy of his paintings by using photography, a relatively new process, along with military documents. Detaille died in Paris in 1912. Regarding Detaille and composer Emmanuel Chabrier, author Rollo Myers said: "Of the portraits of Chabrier painted by Manet and others it is perhaps unfortunate that the brilliantly clever but somewhat overcharged caricature of the composer apparently demolishing a piano, by his friend Edouard Detaille should be the best known--at least to the general public--since it has helped to create the impression that Chabrier was a kind of musical clown." In his book, Emmanuel Chabrier and His Circle, Myers says his object is to "dispel the image conveyed in Detaille's caricature--or rather, to make it clear that this aspect of his personality was only one of many." (Rollo Meyers, Emmanuel Chabrier and His Circle (London:1969) reviewed by Edward Lockspeiser in Music and Letters, Vol. 51, No. 2, April 1970, p. 199) REV. 4/10/2006 |
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