A gallery at the Walters Art Museum displaying a small portion of the the
founders' collection arranged in the "salon" fashion popular in the 19th century.
Note Detaille's "The Picket" in the lower left corner.
On
a visit to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, I was delighted to
discover works by some of the best French military painters of the
19th century. http://thewalters.org
"The Picket" by Edouard Detaille, 1875. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
More and more museums are beginning to display their collections
of academic art that they once hid away as embarrassingly old fashioned.
"Irregulars in the Trenches," by Alphonse de Neuville, 1874. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
The
Walters and some other smaller museums are especially good places to look for
paintings like these because they are often built around their founders'
personal collections.
"Attack at Dawn" by Alphonse de Neuville, 1877. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
In this case, the collectors were William and Henry Walters, American
millionaires of the "Gilded Age" who regularly traveled to Europe to
buy art.
"Napoleon" by Jean Louis Meissonier, 1962, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
