L'ecole des neutres (The neutrals' lesson)

Place Europe: France
Accession Number ART50138
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 38.2 x 57 cm
Object type Print
Physical description photoengraving on Japan paper; edition: 144/300
Maker Forain, Jean-Louis
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Bodies of civilians washed up on a shore; a wrecked ship in the distance. The submarine war took many civilian and military victims. Coutin 1987 (12D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 13 February 1915, pp. 104-5 (12A). There is a drawing of this subject in a private collection (12B) and several small stsudies in the artist's sketch book (12C). It was included in 'De la Marne au Rhin' I, p. 11 (12E).