Vintage Raymond DESVARREUX-LARPENTEUR Prints

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4 rare prints by the famous painter, Raymond Desvarreux-Larpenteur. each or 0 for the set of 4.    Great gift for a military / history buff !!
Background: Raymond Desvarreux, born on 16 June 1876 in Pau and died on 17 December 1961 in Paris, is a French painter.
Son of the American painter James Desvarreux-Larpenteur, he was the pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and then of Jean Baptiste Detaille. He painted landscapes, horses and hunting scenes like his father, but exhibited at the Paris Salon large compositions celebrating the campaigns of the Revolution and the Empire and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. He participated in the panorama of the Battle of Waterloo under the direction of Louis Dumoulin in 1911-1912, and was awarded a gold medal at the Salon of 1913.
He is a member of the Society of Military Painters at the end of 1913, approved by the Army Museum in early December 1914 and appointed painter of the Ministry of War in February 1915.
He was mobilized in 1914, as a corporal in the 25th regiment of territorial infantry, and fought in the north, in Cambrai, Bapaume and Noyelles [Lequel?]. In October 1914 he was hospitalized at Doullens and was declared unfit for the following March. He went on a mission for the first time to the Somme in December 1914. In the numerous theaters of operations he traveled, he often performed the role of interpreter because of his American origins. He encounters multiple units of the French and allied armies whose uniforms he represents in numerous small paintings destined for the Army Museum (150 are still preserved there). These works are portraits of soldiers and officers crossed on the front. It includes representations of materials or scenes of trenches and cantonments. After the War, Raymond Desvarreux completely abandoned military painting for the landscape. He did not return until after 1945 with scenes of battles of the Empire