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Show HOW BATTLES ARE PAINTED Distinguished French Artist Follows Troops nd Tries to Get Details on Canvas. France, in order to preserve the acts of heroism of her soldiers, has, sent many of her .best artists to th front. Among them is Charles Fou, queray, noted principally for his ma, rine paintings. To an interviewer for Cartoons Magazine M. Fouqueray ex. ' plained how he worked. "I keep," he said, ."two or threi miles in the rear, and when the fight ing is over, 1 rush to the battlefield, make qaick sketches of various point before the bodies and the debriB haTS yet been removed; and the soldiers who have taken part in the battle ex-plain ex-plain to me the positions and the very attitude of the fightors, often even mimicking them before me, and polnti ing out on my sketch the changes ought to make." |