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[Marshall Ferdinand Foch, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing slightly left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Marshall Ferdinand Foch, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing slightly left], c1921 Feb. 15. — historic photograph
[Marshall Ferdinand Foch, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing slightly left], c1921 Feb. 15.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 historic photograph of [Marshall Ferdinand Foch, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing slightly left]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Marshall Ferdinand Foch, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing slightly left]

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Unlike most portraits on this board, this one shows Marshal Ferdinand Foch full length and mounted, turned slightly to the left, as painted by Boston artist Edmund C. Tarbell in 1920. Foch had commanded the Allied armies in the final year of the First World War, and by 1920 he was among the most recognized military figures in the world. The print reproduces the painting in photographic form, and its copyright registration dated February 15, 1921, shows how widely such images were circulated in the years after the war. The horseback pose follows a long European tradition of equestrian portraiture that presented military leaders as figures of command.

Created / publishedc1921 Feb. 15.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait paintings 1920 Reproductions.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesG62085 U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint of 1920 painting by Edmund C. Tarbell.
SubjectsFoch, Ferdinand,--1851-1929--Military service.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,189 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179158

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