French Belle Epoque painting Paris seen from Montmartre Oil on canvas signed (ABEL-TRUCHET Louis)

Biography

ABEL-TRUCHET Louis (1857 / 1918)
Louis Abel-Truchet, born December 29, 1857 in Versailles and died September 9, 1918 in Auxerre, is a French painter and poster designer.

A student of Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris, Louis Abel-Truchet created numerous paintings of Parisian night life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as landscapes and genre scenes.

His paintings are treated in a post-impressionist style.

In 1907, he founded the Society of Humorists with Louis Vallet.
A painter of landscapes and genre scenes, he painted and engraved boards extensively on Montmartre, participated in the “Vachalcades” of the Cabaret du Chat Noir and was the author of several floats. 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 used his skills as a painter by appointing him as deputy to Guirand de Scevola, head of the camouflage section.

Abel-Truchet directed the central workshop of this training in Paris.
During the war, he published caricatures in the press, notably Le Petit Journal.

He died from a war wound shortly before the end of hostilities.

After his death, his widow, Julia Abel-Truchet, took over the brushes from her husband from whom she succeeded in the workshop and enjoyed success with her portraits and views of gardens in bloom.

Works in public collections:

Grenoble, Grenoble museum, Venice, day of 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 Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne.

Pau, Museum of Fine Arts: View of the Saïd-Ahmed-el-Kébir cemetery in Blida.
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