1917 Semaine de la Charente Infre – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures 1917 Semaine de la Charente Infre in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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1917 Semaine de la Charente Infre
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This 1917 poster promotes a week devoted to Charente-Inférieure, the Atlantic department of western France, and it was signed by the illustrator Adolphe Willette with the slogan "Vive la nation!" Willette was a Montmartre artist known for caricature and sentimental drawing, and his wartime work carried that same emotional directness. The figure of Marianne, the symbol of the French republic, appears alongside drums, a rallying image common in home-front appeals. Departmental "weeks" like this one were local campaigns, usually encouraging residents to buy war loans to fund the war effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 118 x 81 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: 1917 - Week of the Charente Infre [Infeacuterieure]. Signed: Vive la nation! A. Willette 1917. Promotional goal: Fr. H59. 1917. Item is no. 135 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. ADE · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Marianne (French emblem)--1910-1920. Drums--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,778 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 735_1917_Semaine_de_la_Char_1917 |
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