Allard, Leon [French Infantry Soldier].

L[eon] Allard.  [French Infantry Soldier].  1875.  Watercolor.  19 x 12 (paper).  Signed and dated in ink lower right.   Repaired chip at bottom.  Very good condition. 

This watercolor is attributed to Leon Allard; very little is known about the artist except that he was from Belgium.  This meticulously drawn image depicts a French soldier of the Third Republic not long after the end of the Franco-Prussian War.