Louis Abel-Truchet 1857-1918

Louis Abel-Truchet (December 29, 1857, Versailles – September 9, 1918, Auxerre) was a French painter and poster designer.
He studied under Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris. Abel-Truchet is best known for his paintings of Parisian nightlife at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as landscapes and genre scenes.
From 1891 onward, he exhibited regularly in major Parisian salons, including the Salon d’Automne and the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he became a full member in 1910, as well as the Salon des Artistes Français.
During the war, he contributed caricatures to the press, notably for Le Petit Journal.
He died from war-related injuries shortly before the end of the conflict.