Place | Europe: France |
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Accession Number | AWM2019.367.1 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Sheet: 45.6 x 28 cm |
Object type | |
Physical description | lithograph |
Maker |
Georges d'Ostoya Lasnier, A |
Place made | France: Paris |
Date made | 1914 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Sourires et Corps de Sabre, No.1...
Depicts a German officer fleeing a battlefield on horseback. The caption refers to a well known quote reputably made by the French General Cambronne on being asked to surrender by the English during the battle of Waterloo 'La Garde meurt mais ne se rent pas!' or the old guard dies but never surrenders. In this case instead of surrendering the German officer is retreating back to Berlin.
Artist, writer and translator Georges d'Ostoya was born in Poland. He enlisted in the Foreign Legion at age 16. Over the course of his service, he travelled to Turkey, and later Paris where he settled in around 1900. He was a cartoonist for 'Le Rire', and' L'Assiette au beurre'. He contributed 41 covers and compositions of albums to the latter publication. His style sometimes references Austrian cartoonist Eduard Thony. During the First World War, Georges d'Ostoya illustrated a hostile anti-Germanism and antimonarchism in his work.
- Sourires et Corps de Sabre, No.3
- Sourires et Corps de Sabre, No.4
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.1
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.2
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.3
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.4
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.5
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.6
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.7
- Souvenir de la revanche , No.8
- Clipping his wings
- When Jack comes home again
- Souvenir de la Grande Guerre...
- 1914! Les Assassins
- 1914! Bravoure Allemande
- 1914! Le Batailion Sacre
- 1914! Le Bon Apotre
- 1914! Les "Tauben" sur Paris
- 1914! Paris: Fluctuat nec Mergitur
- 1914! Le Roi des Braves devant l"Histoire
- Pro Patria No.2 La Priere dans la Tranchee
- Pro Patria No.5 L'Absolution
- Pro Patria No.6 Admirable Courage d'un Brancardier
- a tous les corps l'on gagne!
- a ton tour Martin...
- L’Ogre
- Le Vieux bin dieu de Sa Majeste L'Empereur Guillaume II
- Toi baïonnette a dents!...moi couteau dans les dents
- Lui courage est proverbial!...