Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed at lower right, presented in an ornate period giltwood frame with gallery plaque affixed at lower center.

Sheet sight 10 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.; Frame dimensions 23 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.

Julien Le Blant was a French painter of military subjects who specialized in the scenes of the Vendée Wars that occurred during the French Revolution. His studies were completed in the atelier of Ernst-Joseph-Angleton Girard (French, 1813–1898), and the artist made his debut at the 1874 Paris Salon. He received medals for his works at the Salons of 1878 and 1880. He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1885, and the Gold Medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the Paris World's Fair. Le Blant was also a prolific illustrator, and became known for a large series of drawings, watercolors and paintings of French soldiers on their way home from and departing to the front during the First World War. Le Blant also worked extensively in the watercolor medium and was elected a member of the Society of French Watercolorists.

Toning and slight waviness to sheet, some barely visible spotting, not examined out of the frame; the frame with minor losses and areas of restoration.