Route du Tillat, Verdun

Depicts a French soldier on a horse on the Tillat Road, near Verdun. He stands beside another soldier who observes an overturned cart and dead horse. Behind them are two wounded soldiers, one with a bandage on his head, the other with a sling over his arm. In the background is an ambulance vehicle. The landscape in which they appear is badly damaged, with smashed trees. Jean- Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939) was born at St. Germain-en-Laye and studied under his father, Etienne Berne-Bellecour. Jean-Jacques was known as a realist painter and his first works were military paintings, but he also painted landscapes, especially snow scenes. His art was exhibited at the National des Beaux-Artes and the salon des Independants from 1926-1939.