Un arrêt pendant la retraite Sept 1914 (A stop during the retreat Sept 1914)

French soldiers taking a break during the retreat from battle on the Somme in France in September 1914.The tail end of a wagon is seen at right with several soldiers seated on it. Other soldiers are seated or at left and centre standing carrying their rifles. In the margin lower left the artist has drawn a miniature portrait in right profile of the standing figure in the left foreground leaning on his rifle. 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.