Mon Ancien Regiment

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Mon Ancien Regiment, 1881. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 47 × 66.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Mon Ancien Regiment
Artist: Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French, 1848–1912)
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 47 × 66.5 cm (18 1/2 × 26 1/4 in.); Framed: 73.7 × 94 × 10.8 cm (29 × 37 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit line: George F. Harding Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1848–1912

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.