COMBA (Pierre). Hunters of the Alps. Circa 1890. Watercolour, 40 x 27 cm, framed. Six Alpine hunters taking a break on a mountain path. Attached: - COMBA (Pierre): On manoeuvre in the Alps. Chromolithograph, 26 x 18 cm, under glass. Engraving taken from l'Armée française, annuaire illustré pour 1896, by Roger de Beauvoir. Pierre Comba (Nice, 1859-1934) was a French painter and watercolourist. A student of Jean-Louis Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he became the official painter of the French Army. For some thirty years, he accompanied Alpine hunter battalions to the theatre of operations, including during the Great War; he produced delicate watercolours depicting Alpine hunters in mountainous settings. In 1903, he became a member of the Société des peintres de montagne, where he exhibited regularly from 1907 to 1914.