Description
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 of the head in right profile of the soldier in the foreground. 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
ART92969
Physical Description
Medium: lithograph on paper
Measurement
sheet: 56 cm x 37.7 cm
Medium
lithograph on paper
Credit Line
Purchased 2006
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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