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Mathurin MEHEUT (Lamballe, 1882 - Paris, 1958), painter for the French Navy in 1921. "En Sentinelle devant Tilloi / ARRAS. March 15, 1915". Watercolor signed, located and dated lower right. Annotated by the artist lower left: "Quesnel / tué à Roclincourt / Mai 15". Height: 40.5 cm. Width : 28 cm. Corporal Méheut represented Eugène Auguste Quesnel, 2nd class in the same regiment as himself: the 136th Infantry. The emotion that emanates from this large watercolor is heightened tenfold by the terrible annotation he affixed to it two months later... Quesnel was killed on May 30, 1915 at Roclincourt (Source: French Ministry of the Army database).

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Mathurin MEHEUT (Lamballe, 1882 - Paris, 1958), painter for the French Navy in 1921. "En Sentinelle devant Tilloi / ARRAS. March 15, 1915". Watercolor signed, located and dated lower right. Annotated by the artist lower left: "Quesnel / tué à Roclincourt / Mai 15". Height: 40.5 cm. Width : 28 cm. Corporal Méheut represented Eugène Auguste Quesnel, 2nd class in the same regiment as himself: the 136th Infantry. The emotion that emanates from this large watercolor is heightened tenfold by the terrible annotation he affixed to it two months later... Quesnel was killed on May 30, 1915 at Roclincourt (Source: French Ministry of the Army database).

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