Summary
French souvenir postcard titled 'Les Auteurs et les Principaux Collaborateurs'. It depicts the main 'authors' and collaborators on the massive panoramic painting 'Pantheon De La Guerre', coordinated by Pierre Carrier-Belleuse and Auguste François-Marie Gorguet (named on the postcard) and painted by more than 100 French artists during World War I. It was started soon after war broke out, and was completed just before the Armistice. All of the Allies were eventually depicted, including around 6,000 individuals. The painting remains amongst the largest in the world.
After the war the Pantheon de la Guerre was shipped to the United States, neglected and eventually badly damaged. Its remains are now shown in Kansas, at the National World War I Museum and Memorial.
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FRENCH SOUVENIER POSTCARD 'PANTHEON DE LA GUERRE' FIRST WORLD WAR 'THE AUTHORS AND PRINCIPAL COLABORATERS OF THE PANTHEON DE LA GUERRE'
Physical Description
Postcard featuring photographic portraits of 19 men, each set within a circle. Two men at the centre are shown in a single circle. Text above and below. Blank postcard form on back.
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Donation from Unknown, Before 22 Mar 1995
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Postcard
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Printed: 'P. Carrier-Belleuse - PANTHEON DE LA GUERRE - A.'F. Gorguet / LES AUTEURS et les principaux COLLABORATEURS / / 1918 - Copyright by the "Pantheon de la Guerre'. Directly beneath image: ILLon HENRI MANUEL / PR'. [Translation: 'The authors and principal collaborators of the Pantheon of the War'.] Printed on back: 'CARTE POSTALE / CORRESPONDANCE / ADDRESSE / IMP LE DELEY, PARIS / Edit Art H. Manuel. Paris'.
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