French soldier dreaming that a German Hun is taking his wife and daughter

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 miniature portrait of the German baring his teeth. 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.