Pierre Comba (1859 - 1934) was a French painter best known
for his watercolors depicting the life of the Chasseurs Alpin.
In 1881 he serves as a conscript in North Africa where he
participated in the campaign of Tunisia. Encouraged by the military painters,
he became assistant designer in September 1883.
In 1888, Peter Comba settled permanently in his hometown Nice
where he married, widowed soon, and re-married a Venetian who gave him a son in
1896. As a former military painter he obtained the authorization of the General
Staff to follow, the summer and winter manoeuvres in the Alps (Counties of
Nice, Dauphiné, Savoie ). He will do so for twenty-six years, until the
beginning of the great war.
In 1903 he became a member of the Mountain Painters Society
where he exhibited regularly from 1907 to 1914. He designed for directories of
the French Army and was a contributor to several magazines such as The
Illustrated Figaro.
From 1914 to 1918, he returned to work as a painter of the
Army, mainly with the Chasseurs Alpin, following in the battles they lead, across
the icy cliffs of the Vosges to the muddy trenches of the Somme.
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