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Creator:
Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British
Title:

L'Enfant du Regiment [1856, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]

Former Title(s):

L'Enfant du Regiment (The Random Shot)

Date:
1854 to 1855
Medium:
Oil on paper, laid on canvas, mounted on board
Dimensions:
Support (PTG): 17 3/4 x 24 inches (45.1 x 61 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated, lower right: "18 [symbol] 55" in monogram "JEM"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.4
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.4FR
Subject Terms:
battle | child | church | costume | girl | historical subject | knight (landholder) | Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) | opera (discipline) | relief | sculpture | tomb | war | war
Access:
On view in the galleries
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5021
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Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 9, 16, no. 39, fig. 8, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Susan P. Casteras, English Pre-Raphaelitism and its reception in America in the nineteenth century, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford [N.J.] London Cranbury, NJ, 1990, pp. 76, 95, ND467.5 P7 C37 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 160-161, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Cornelius P. Darcy, The encouragement of the fine arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, 3d ser., v. 24, Manchester University Press, Manchester [England], 1976, p. 158, N5245 D27 (YCBA)

Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, Frederic Leighton : death, mortality, resurrection, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2015, pp. 67, 118, fig. 2.12, NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA)

John Everett Millais, Appletons' Journal: a magazine of general literature, vol. 12, no. 292, October 24, 1874, p. 514, Film S2504 (SML) Also available online via Google Books

Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden, paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 156, no. 63, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

John Guille Millais, The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy, Methuen & co., ltd., London, 1899, pp.237-39 (v. 1), NJ18 M61 M55 1899 (YCBA)

Millais, an exhibition organized by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool & the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January-April, 1967. , Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool & London, 1967, pp. 122-23, NJ18 M61 W35 (YCBA)

Leslie Parris, The Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Publishing, London, 1994, p. 136, no. 70, N6767.5 P7 P742 1984 + (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy, a passion for British art. [large print labels] , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 +P381 2007, Mellon Shelf (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 9, 16, no. 39, fig. 8, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Jason Rosenfeld, Millais, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 100, no. 61, N18 M61 R67 2007 + (YCBA)

William Michael Rossetti, Fine art, chiefly contemporary: notices re-printed, with revisions., AMS Press, New York, 1970, p. 218, N7476 R66 1907A (YCBA)

John Ruskin, Notes on some of the principal pictures of Sir John Everett Millais, exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, 1886 : with a preface and original and selected criticisms , William Reese, London, 1886, pp. 20-21, ND4497 M6 R8 1886 + (YCBA RARE BOOKS)

M. H. (Marion Henry) Spielmann, Millais and his works, with special reference to the exhibition at the Royal Academy 1898, W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1898, p. 102, no. 59, NJ18 M61 L65 (YCBA)

The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868, Winter exhibition, 1951-52. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, pp. 122-23 (v,1), no. 289, N5054 A545 1951/52 (YCBA)

The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868, Winter exhibition, 1951-52. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, pp. 122-23 (v,1), no. 289, Fiche B185 (YCBA)

The Royal Academy, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, vol. 2, no. 28, May 10, 1856, p. 32, Available Online : British Periodicals Also Available in Hardcopy : 2000 +S52 (BRBL)

Malcolm Warner, Notes on Millais' Use of Subjects from the Opera, 1851-4, The Pre-Raphaelite Review, vol. 2, November 1978, p. 74, NX543 J68 + (LSF)


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