La Francaise pendant la Grande Guerre [The French lady during the Great War]

Place Europe: France
Accession Number ART19885.005
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 17.7 x 12 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour, pen and ink, pen and brown ink, pencil on paper
Maker Rowe, E
Place made France
Date made 26 December 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

Single leaf compostition depicting a French blonde woman in a royal blue, black fur-trimmed coat with matching dress, a black muff and black hat with white flower. Her feet and body move to her left, toward a British officer, while she gazes over right shoulder, toward a French soldier, holding her right hand up to her face in a gesture of tentativeness. The faint outline of trees in the background suggest this is a street scene. An inscription in the lower right corner indicates that the scene is situated in Bauzemont, a village situated in Luneville, the Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, in the north-east of France. The caption underneath the illustration reads 'Entrè les deux mon coeur balance [Between the two my heart balances]', which suggests that her heart torn between her two suitors - the French soldier and the British officer.

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