Place | Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Combles Area |
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Accession Number | ART92970 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 56 x 37.7 cm; image: 31.5 x 21.5 cm |
Object type | |
Physical description | lithograph on paper |
Maker |
Abel-Truchet, Louis |
Place made | France: Paris |
Date made | c 1914 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Un cri dans la nuit (A cry in the night)
Description
A dead soldier lying on the ground with right arm outstretched, still holding his bayonet in France during the First World War. Another French soldier kneels beside him looking towards a light in the sky and making a plea for help. In the margin lower left the artist has drawn a miniature portrait of the seated soldier's face. 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.