Quay In Venice Signed Louis-abel Truchet

Many characters and great animation on this quay of Venice at the arrival of a sailboat, perhaps a return from fishing. Oil on panel signed lower right by the French artist Louis-Abel Truchet. Dimensions with frame 42 x 33 cm Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918) is a French painter, trained at the Académie Julian, where he will follow the courses of Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. Specialist in landscape and scenes of daily life, he evolves in a post-impressionist style with views of Marseille, Venice, the ports of Brittany, Paris and the Butte Montmartre. Also an excellent caricaturist, he founded the Société des Humoristes in 1907 with Louis Vallet. During the First World War he participated in the camouflage section, and will assist Commander Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola, another great artist, recognized as one of the inventors of military camouflage. Louis Abel-Truchet was named a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1911. Works by Louis Abel-Truchet are present in many museums, Paris Musée Carnavalet, Grenoble, Le Havre, Pau, Reims.