"Abel Truchet Louis French Painting Belle Epoque Paris Vue De Montmartre Oil on canvas Signed

ABEL TRUCHET Louis ( 1857 / 1918 )

Paris, Montmartre seen from the Place Blanche and the street Puget.

Oil on canvas signed and located "Montmartre" in lower left.

65,5 x 54,5 cm

Louis Abel-Truchet, born on December 29, 1857 in Versailles and died on September 9, 1918 in Auxerre, was a French painter and poster artist who studied with Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1907, he founded the Society of Humorists with Louis Vallet.landscape and genre painter, he painted and engraved a lot of plates on Montmartre, participated in the "Vachalcades" of the Cabaret du Chat Noir and was the author of several tanks.Abel-Truchet was named knight of the Legion of Honor in 1911.During the First World War, he volunteered as a territorial lieutenant in the 1st Engineer Regiment in 1914. The army made use of his skills as a painter by appointing him to the position of deputy to Guirand de Scevola, head of the camouflage section. Abel-Truchet directed the central workshop of this formation in Paris. During the war, he published caricatures in the press, notably in Le Petit Journal.he died of a war wound shortly before the end of hostilities.after his death, his widow, Julia Abel-Truchet, took over the brushes of her husband, whom she had succeeded in the workshop, and enjoyed success with his portraits and views of gardens in bloom. Works in public collections:Grenoble, Grenoble Museum, Venice, day visit to the hospital.Le Havre, André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art: Basque Landscape.Paris, Carnavalet Museum: Street scene.The Gaumont Palace illuminated at night (1911).The chalet of the castle of Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne.Pau, Museum of Fine Arts: View of the cemetery Saïd-Ahmed-el-Kébir in Blida