Retour de la cote 125 (Return from Hill 125) 1914 Accession Number: ART92964

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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 artist has drawn a miniature portrait of the head and shoulders of the soldier at front right. 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.

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Accession Number
ART92964
Classification
Art
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Medium: lithograph on paper
Measurement
sheet: 55.5 cm x 38 cm
Medium
lithograph on paper; edition: 29/290
Date Made
1914
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Purchased 2006
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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