Retour de la cote 125 (Return from Hill 125) 1914

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.