Louis Abel-Truchet

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Louis Abel-Truchet , actually Louis-Abel Truchet , (born December 29, 1857 in Versailles , Yvelines department , † September 9, 1918 in Auxerre , Yonne department ) was a French painter of the Belle Époque .

Life

Abel-Truchet was a student of Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian . The first exhibitions followed from 1891. He was one of the founding members of the Société du Salon d'Automne and was one of the first artists to be seen at their autumn exhibitions. In 1910 Abel-Truchet became a member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts .

Abel-Truchet was a compatriot and contemporary of painters such as Eugène Galien-Laloue , Jean-Louis Forain and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen . His subjects included night views of Montmartre , street scenes from Venice , Padua, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Avignon and Tunis .

In 1907 Abel-Truchet u. a. together with his colleague Louis Vallet in Paris the Société des humoristes .

At the outbreak of World War I , he undertook voluntarily in 1914 as a lieutenant of a pioneer -Regimentes, the one he  régiment du Génie . In September 1918 he died as a result of a war wound.

The art market rates him low: in 2007, up to $ 24,000 was paid for one of his Parisian street scenes.

Honors

Works

  • Scène de rue
    (street scene),
    late 19th century,
    Musée Carnavalet , Paris

  • Le Gaumont Palace illuminé dans la nuit
    (The illuminated cinema Gaumont Palace at night)
    1911
    Musée Carnavalet , Paris

  • Vue du cimetière Saïd-Ahmed-el-Kébir à Blida
    (view of the Saïd-Ahmed-el-Kébir cemetery in Bilda)
    end of the 19th century
    Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau

  • La Festa Del Redentore, Venice
    (Feast of the Redeemer, Venice)
    undated
    Collection of Fred and Sherry Ross, USA

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 1 . Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0149-4 .
  • Cécile Coutin: Tromper l'ennemi. L'invention du camouflage moderne, 1914–1918 . Éditions Pierre de Taillac, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-36445-015-8 (also dissertation, University of Paris 1987).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the website of an auction house , accessed on December 30, 2010
  2. ↑ page of the auction house , requested on December 30, 2010

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Abel-Truchet, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Truchet, Louis-Abel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1918
Place of death Auxerre