The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This is an ironic work showing a trench full of water in France during the First World War and referring to it as Peace Street in Aquatique City, a made up name referring to the water-logged trenches in France. The Peace cafe is on the left and the bureau or office is on the right. The trench itself is a river of water. In the margin lower right the artist has drawn miniature portraits of two of the French soldiers, the one at right is of an older soldier and the one at left is a young boy. Louis Abel-Truchet was born at Versailles, France, in 1857, and died in action on the Western Front on 9 September 1918. He was a well known French painter, etcher and lithographer who studied in Paris with two highly renowned teachers, Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. He began exhibiting at the Paris Salons about 1891.
Interior of a cafe called the Peace cafe in the trenches at Carnoy in France, 1915, during the First World War. In the margin lower right the artist has drawn miniature portraits of the faces of two o
Figure of a French soldier wearing a thick trench coat on sentinel duty in a trench on the Western Front in France during the First World War. In the margin lower right the artist has drawn a miniatu
A group of French soldiers in a trench at Carnoy on the Somme, France, during the First World War. All are rugged up wearing their greatcoats against the bitter cold. In the margin lower right the art
Four French soldiers in France during the First World War, rugged up against the cold, carrying a wounded soldier, as they return from a battle at Hill 125 in France. In the margin lower right the art
French soldiers about to mount a surprise attack against the Germans in the moonlight in France in 1914 during the First World War. In the margin lower right the artist has drawn a miniature portrait
A French soldier in a trench in France during the First World War is imagining with horror that a German Hun is taking his wife and little daughter. In the margin lower left the artist has drawn a min
