French soldiers during WWI.

Drawing, graphite and watercolour, 47,5 x 33,3 cm, large drawing paper, signed at lower right "SEM" (laid down on cardb., some age-related stains).

Nice, slightly caricatural drawings of soldiers at the Marne during the Great War. They are seen laughing, pulling a cannon and having lunch in a meadow. With inscription "Pendant la poursuite de la Marne 1915 mai Juin". Georges Goursat (1863-1934), known as SEM, was a French caricaturist, famous during the Belle Époque. Also WWI was one of his favoured subjects.