Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris

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Accession Number ARTV01068
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: COL. ; 118 X 80CM.
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Leroux, Jules Marie Auguste
PARIS : COMPTOIR NATIONAL D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS, 1918 (PARIS : JOSEPH CHARLES)
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Color poster of two women smiling. The woman on the left is wearing a large black Alsatian headdress ("coiffe alsacienne"). She is raising one arm in the air as if to salute and has her other arm around the shoulder of the other woman. The woman on the right is holding flowers. She wears a white bonnet and a shawl, typical of the region of Lorraine. Both women wear blue-white-and-red rosettes on their headwear. A bird flies at the lower left side of the picture. (Alsace-Lorraine was a part of France ceded to the German Empire in 1871. It was reverted to France at the end of the First World War.)

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