Featured WWI watercolor print?? Looking for any information!

Dear antiquers friends,
Would greatly appreciate any thoughts and ideas from the beehive about the origins of this 1917 artwork which appears to be a signed and numbered aquatint print of a soldier and his dog. I spent a couple of hours digging into the possible spelling of the name(s) and cannot find anything definitive. Thanks very much in advance!

 

I see "Maurice le" something.

Debora

 

Deux (2) Poilus is the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poilu

 

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/264131328134

 

Amazing! Thanks so much, Bronwen!!! Mystery solved

 

Nice piece. I don't read French (or speak it for that matter) but that is lovely

 

I read Maurice le Poitevin
Location Château de Lattaux.

 

Good eyes! And attribution certainly works.

Debora

 

Bravo @Bronwen!

 

Thanks so much, kyratango! I would never be able to decipher the name. You guys are the best! Thank you all!

 

Thank you, I just opened the door a crack.

I started by looking for this, but only got Lavaux & Laplaud, so moved on to 'poilu', a new word for me. Brava to you for seeing that last name as starting with P; I went off looking for le Boiterin & variants. Among us all, think we got this one nailed.

 

And I kept reading the first letter as "D" - so far off!

 

And, my bad, the location isn't Lattaux but LAFFAUX!
There was a big battle to win the position during the "Chemin des Dames" battle.

 

Since it looks like 'Latlaux', we'll forgive you. Now I think it's well & truly nailed down.

 

Thank you!!

 

Looks like a lithograph to me. The signature on the work, and the signature under the work do not seem the same to me. Am I missing something?

 

I can't speak to the printing technique, but the pencil signature looks like 'Cluny' to me.

 

https://openagenda.com/jep-2016-nor...-artiste-dans-la-bataille-de-la-somme?lang=en

And that's the English! IM Translator does this with it:

Maurice Le Poitevin, stretcher bearer in the 329th RI, the Historial not only keeps his war diary detailing his career in the concern to report the daily, but also a series of some 120 drawings (charcoal, gouache, ink .... ) captioned and dated. The Poitevin continues, through the battles leading from Artois to Aisne, to sketch live scenes of the life of the front, going to the striking representations of the violence of the battlefield and the death. A chronology of his work will take into account his experience of military service (1907-1911) until the difficult period of the post-war period marked by the production of film sets. He who speaks of 'learning the warrior' calls his war diary 'A la traine ...', thus revealing in a few words the quality and intensity of his frank and bold language. The cross analysis between the study of the corpus of drawings and that of the manuscript reveals a testimony of a rich intensity, far from conventions.

 

I'm not readily finding anything attributed to le Poitevin that has any color, so maybe added for the print?

 

This is also by Poitevin. It's called "La Charge Moderne", but the site where I found it gives absolutely no info on medium, or where the original is.



And this (also no info): "Avec les débris de la Ve armée Anglaise en retraite sur Noyon"


On these two images, I can't tell if they are intaglio prints, but I don't think so. No sign to my eye of a plate mark in the lower left of that first. (I can't tell if OP's is an intaglio print. It doesn't look like it to me. Is there a plate mark? Not definitive, but it might help.) These don't seem to be numbered editions. The question is: have these images been reproduced? Has just that one image been reproduced? Are we looking at a limited run reproduction of an original watercolor? Is it a lithograph of a le Poiteven painting by that other person?

That different signature underneath bothers me. If it is a numbered limited edition created by that second name, it opens the question of who did it... and when.