- Title:
- L'Enfant du Regiment
- 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
- Exhibition History:
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Pre-Raphaelites (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28)
Millais (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2008-08-30 - 2008-10-26)
Millais (Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 2008-06-07 - 2008-08-17)
Millais (Tate Britain, 2007-10 - 2008-01-13)
Millais (Van Gogh Museum, 2008-02-15 - 2008-05)
Yale University Art Gallery 2015 - 2016 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-07-27 - 2015-01-05)
- Publications:
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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)
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)
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)
Leslie Parris, The Pre-raphaelites, Tate Publishing, London, 1994, p. 136, no. 70, N6767.5 P7 P742 1994 + (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5021
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British, L'Enfant du Regiment, 1854 to 1855
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