20 - Henri GIRAULT de NOLHAC (1884–1948)

Henri GIRAULT de NOLHAC (1884–1948) A significant album of captioned sketches from World War I (1914–1918), primarily from 1915 and 1916, comprising 175 drawings and 63 watercolors depicting the war, including in particular: Portraits (Marcel Ragé, Fernand Barois), Noeud mines, telephone station at the foot of the valley, Battle of the Somme 1915, Béthune 1915 (dairy), devastated houses in Maricourt (Somme 1916), military uniforms, Scottish kilts, Trench 2 at Hersin on August 12, 1915; the balloon camp at Brassier Delafon 2; soldiers taking a break in the rain in Artois, 1915; Sapper in Béthune in 1915, British 74mm gun in Béthune in 1915, Father de Chagnol in front of the dugout in Bray-sur-Somme, Somme, 1916, The Caterpillar, Balloons over the Somme on July 2, 1916 (22x28 cm), The evening of the attack on the road from Montauban to Maricourt in the Somme in 1916, Suzanne under bombardment on July 24, 1916, Vierzy, Reims Forest; Bois de Leuze, Somme, November 2, 1916; British corpse at Matty-Horn Farm, Somme, October 13, 1916; telephone exchange in Suzanne; abandoned British tank after the capture of Combles; full-length portrait of Marshal Joffre (17 x 11 cm), vaccination in Hersin, February 1916, telephone car, church at Chatelbraoult near Vitry-le-François in 1918, Pauvres, October 21, 1918; German 150-mm gun abandoned during the retreat; 155-mm Fillioux gun; scenes from the trenches. One of the watercolors is monogrammed in the lower right corner: HN Various sizes: the largest being 22x28 cm. Presented in an Italian-style book. Condition: 5 drawings are torn; 2 have numerous foxing spots; 4 have scattered foxing spots. Wear on the book binding.