Louis Abel-Truchet

Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home

Louis Abel-Truchet's lithograph, "Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home" belongs to a series of French lithographs depicting scenes dealing with World War One. This original lithograph is printed upon Japon paper with large, full margins as published in Paris around 1916 in the limited edition of twenty five impressions. It is signed by the artist in pencil and numbered along the lower margin. Louis Abel-Truchet has also provided a small pen and ink sketch (remarque) of a young girl. Abel-Truchet has also hand-colored this charming little image and signed it with his A. T. monogram.

Original Lithograph with a Hand Drawn Remarque Watercolor by the French artist, Louis Abel-Truchet.

Stalemate on the Western Front Original Lithograph by Louis Abel-Truchet

Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home

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Title:	Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home
Artist:	Truchet, Louis Abel (Versailles, 1857 - Western Front, France, 1918)
Date:	c. 1916
Medium:	Original Lithograph with a Hand Drawn Remarque Watercolor
Note:	Louis Abel-Truchet: A major French painter, etcher and lithographer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Abel-Truchet studied art in Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. He began exhibiting his art at the leading Paris Salons around 1891. A versatile artist, Louis Abel-Truchet was equally skilled at created Impressionist landscapes and city scenes, 'Belle Epoque' images of Paris beauties and their culture and finally, satirical art. Satirical art played a large role in Abel-Truchet's creative efforts and scholars have sometimes compared his work in this field to such contemporaries as Forain and Steinlen.
	Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home belongs to a series of lithographs depicting Louis Abel-Truchet's first hand impressions of World War One. At the age of 57 he volunteered for active service and became a lieutenant of the Regiment du Genie. He later commanded a camouflage section and received both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'Honneur. Regrettably he died in combat in the closing months of the war.
	Judging by the age of the scolded officer in this original lithograph, it may very well be a self-portrait of the artist himself. If Louis Abel-Truchet's domestic life was really like this it is little wonder he volunteered to go to war at such an advanced period of life.
	Most of Abel-Truchet's war lithographs were published in very small numbers. This is the case with Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home which was published in a limited edition of twenty-five signed impressions. On this particular impression, Louis Abel-Truchet has also provided a small pen and ink sketch (remarque) of a young girl rather rudely thumbing her nose at the scene. The artist has also hand-colored this charming little image and signed it with his A. T. monogram.
	Louis Abel-Truchet was a founding member of both Salon d'Automne and la Societe des Humoristes. He was also a full member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Artistes Francais. In 1919 a large commemorative exhibition of his art took place in Paris at the Salon d'Automne.
Edition:	Limited edition of twenty five impressions, 3/25.
Size:	10 X 16 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon Japon paper with large, full margins as published in Paris around 1916 in the limited edition of twenty five impressions. Containing two faint horizontal scratch marks in the woman's dress. The marks, however, originate from the stone and not the paper. Also containing the above mentioned hand drawn remarque to the lower right. Signed by the artist in pencil and numbered, '3/25' along the lower margin. A finely printed impression and in very good condition throughout. Stalemate on the Western Front: Defeat at Home represents both a superb and scarce example of the famous satirical art of Louis Abel-Truchet.
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