Rue de la paix à Aquatique City (Carnoy) 1914 (Street of peace at Aquatique City in Carnoy) 1914)

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.