Magnificent Sketch Album By Louis Dauphin - The Northern Front - Period: War 1914-1918

Magnificent album of 25 plates and 60 sketches, taken on the northern front, with attestation from the commanders of the camps where they were taken, enhanced with watercolor and retouched with wash.

This beautiful album was printed in 250 copies on bubble wrap, it bears the number 35.

The author is none other than Louis Dauphin, official painter of the Ministry of the Navy and the Army Museum.

Period: Early 20th century - Circa: 1917
Dimensions: Closed album: Height: 46cm x Width: 39cm
Open album: Height: 46cm x Width: 74cm
Plate dimensions: Height: 33cm x width: 23cm
Bulle copy: N°35

Born in Paris in 1885 died in 1924, Louis Dauphin was appointed official painter of the navy in 1912.

He is the son of the official painter of the navy Dauphin Eugène Baptistin Émile marie (1857-1930). Dauphin is a painter of the 1914-1918 war.

He embarked on various ships of the national navy, knows Greece, Italy, Spain, he is also a painter of the Mediterranean.

Louis-Etienne Dauphin exhibited landscapes of the North at the Special Exhibition of Mobilized Artists in 1919. In 1920, he exhibited at the National Salon of drawings from Corfu, Athens and Venice, from sketches taken during the campaigns. from the Orient and Italy.
He had also painted in Provence and Spain.

This magnificent album brings together a series of paintings as varied as the war itself.

All his visions were collected with a real gift of observation and rendered with a rare intensity.

It is the English army which inspired this work, in the heart of the subject in real time, the allies aroused the admiration of all, by their efforts on the front of the Somme, to help in the general victory but to To do so, they first had to win a difficult victory over the entire country, with the institution of universal and compulsory military service, which was nothing less than a revolution for this traditional country.

An exceptional testimony to this war of 1914-1918 which our English friends named "the Great War", for its duration, its extent, its industrial dimension, its human toll, it is undoubtedly distinguished from other conflicts which have punctuated the history of humanity.