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  • Pleureuses d'un jour/Un petit drapeau M'sieur Pleureuses d'un jour/Un petit drapeau M'sieur

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Georges 1915

    image: A city park; in the centre of the composition, an elderly bourgeois, dressed in city clothes with top hat, monocle and cane, proffers a coin to an attractive young Red Cross collector. He stands in profile facing left and smiles lasciviously at...

  • Mélancolie [Melancholy] Mélancolie [Melancholy]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Georges 1915

    image: To the left of centre of the composition, the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm (Little Willy), both in profile looking to the right. The Crown Prince is in the foreground, seated upon a milestone which bears the legend...

  • Les Etrennes de la Maison Hohenzollern [New Year's Gifts in the Hohenzollern Household] Les Etrennes de la Maison Hohenzollern [New Year's Gifts in the Hohenzollern Household]

    (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel 1915

    image: A single German soldier, wearing pickelhaube and glasses gazes surprised into large white confectionary bag decorated with a pink ribbon bow, and bearing the legend 'Pastilles 'incendiaries'. The Imperial German crown features below the text.

  • Noël 1914 ''A la Belle Etoile' [Christmas 1914 at the Bright Star] Noël 1914 ''A la Belle Etoile' [Christmas 1914 at the Bright Star]

    (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel 1914

    image: In a shallow trench, a sleeping French soldier in regulation blue greatcoat and red trousers. He lies facing the viewer his head resting on his left arm, his right outstretched. His rifle, bayonet fixed leans upright against the trench. His...

  • Le Baptême du Feu - Régulairement ... ma marraine Senrair être là [Baptism of Fire - Regularly...my Godmother Ought to be
There] Le Baptême du Feu - Régulairement ... ma marraine Senrair être là [Baptism of Fire - Regularly...my Godmother Ought to be There]

    (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel 1918

    image: To the right of the composition stands a poilu in full kit, seen three-quarter length. He faces the viewer, smiling, his eyes almost closed, his rosy checks shining. A cigarette hangs from his lips. Behind him and above, numerous artillery...

  • Les Honneurs sous la Mitraille [Honour Beneath the Hail of Bullets] Les Honneurs sous la Mitraille [Honour Beneath the Hail of Bullets]

    (art) Made by: Fabiano, Fabien (artist) 1914

    image: In the centre of the composition, two British soldiers, walking towards the right of the viewer, carry their wounded officer, his head slumped forward, his right arm dangling. This group passes, on the right of the composition, a line of four...

  • Comme le Chevalier d'Assas - A moi Comme le Chevalier d'Assas - A moi

    (art) Made by: Fabiano, Fabien (artist) 1914

    image: A moonlit night at the edge of a wood. At the centre of the composition, a German officer in full field uniform facing right in profile. His outstretched left hand grasps a French poilu by the throat; his right holds a straight-bladed sword...

  • Un Héros de Quinze Ans Un Héros de Quinze Ans

    (art) Made by: Fabiano, Fabien (artist) 1914

    image: The straw-covered interior of a shattered dwelling. At the right of the composition stands a young peasant in profile: dressed in waistcoat, patched trousers and sabots, he holds a Lebel rifle with fixed bayonet at the ready. Slung around his...