Cercle National pour le soldat de Paris – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Cercle National pour le soldat de Paris. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cercle National pour le soldat de Paris
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Aimed at men on leave in the capital, this 1917 color lithograph promotes the Cercle National pour le soldat de Paris, a club meant to give French soldiers a place to gather and find some respite from the front. It was signed "JOB," the pen name of the illustrator Jacques Onfroy de Bréville, whose patriotic images of French troops circulated widely during the war. The subjects cataloged for the poster, military personnel, casualties and flags, reflect the themes of duty and sacrifice that ran through much of wartime French advertising and public appeals.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 122 x 84 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: The national club for the soldiers of Paris. Signed: JOB [pseudonym for Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breacuteville]. Promotional goal: Fr. G1. 1917//Fr. J42. 1917. Item is no. 100 170 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BYA//ACE · Preissig Vojtech artist. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--French. World War 1914-1918--Casualties--French. Flags--French--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,763 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 933_Cercle_National_pour_le_1917 |
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