• Louis Abel-Truchet
• French, 1857-1918
• "Le Soir au Café, circa 1905"
• Oil on Canvas
• 18 x 11 inches, Framed: 24 x 17 inches
• Signed lower right
• Price on Request

Louis-Abel Truchet was an early French impressionist and one of the founders of La Société des Humoristes. Some of his most successful canvases depict the cafés of Montmartre, Monte Carlo, and Avignon as well as the canals of Venice. Le Soir au Café is typical of his café scenes and is set apart from many other French artists who did similar works, by its early date. It can be compared to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and Louis Legrand with the Belle Époque aesthetic and satirical perspective. However, Truchet often used thick paint application and richer color palettes in comparison to his counterparts. As we see in Le Soir au Café, a modicum of detail to capture the atmosphere, fashions and stances of the night life before him. Artists like Truchet captured the fin-de-siècle sensitivity of Paris in which still holds an allure to people today.