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After training at the Académie Julian, French painter and graphic artist Louis Abel-Truchet established himself as an independent artist in the French capital in 1890. The following year, he exhibited his work at one of the Paris Salons; he would do this regularly thereafter, his entries were shown at the Salon des Artistes Français, the Salon d’Automne and the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he became a member in 1910.
An important part of his work consists of the scenes in impressionistic style that the painter captured in his beloved Montmartre. He also painted still lifes, landscapes and gardens that he made during his travels through France and Italy. Abel-Truchet was also a watercolourist and engraver and a fervent cartoonist for satirical newspapers, including Le Petit Journal. At the start of the First World War, he voluntarily joined the French army and was deployed in the Camouflage Division. There, his experience as a painter was gratefully used. In addition, he continued to work as a cartoonist who was known for his anti-militarist stance. Shortly before the end of the war, he was wounded and died, at the age of 55, in a military hospital in Auxerre. After his death, some of his works were included in an exhibition in the Salon d'Automne in 1919, in honor of artists who had died in the war. His wife, the portrait painter Julia Abel-Truchet, continued to work in her husband's studio in Montmartre after his death.
