File:Bombardement de Soissons . Mars 1917 . Avenue Gambetta..Comité des Étudiants Américains de l'École des Beaux-Arts Paris post card numbered 25815, by F.(or P.)Dupuy.WWI postcard art.Wittig collection.item 40.obverse.scan.jpg
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[edit]Bombardement de Soissons . Mars 1917 . Avenue Gambetta.; Comité des Étudiants Américains de l'École des Beaux-Arts Paris post card, numbered 25815, by F.(or P.?)Dupuy; WWI postcard art. An impressionist landscape of a street scene of war ruins and bare, broken trees, with smoke, explosions, & reflections of red-yellow-orange light, a church tower looms in the distance. Soissons, March of 1917. Miniature painting, watercolours(?) & ink; painted on a standard, printed 'The Comité des Étudiants Américains de l'École des Beaux-Arts Paris guarantee the authenticity of this post card', post-card blank. Signed 'F.(or P.?) Dupuy' on front. Full front caption reads as follows: 'Bombardement de Soissons . Mars 1917 . Avenue Gambetta. F.(or P.?)Dupuy.'. Back with only the handwritten number '25815' added (@ bottom centre) to the standard printed design & text. March 1917. More information about the artist would be appreciated. Wittig collection, item 40; private collection, fam. Wittig et cie.
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[edit]This image is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published outside the United States prior to January 1, 1929. Other jurisdictions have other rules. Also note that this image may not be in the public domain in the 9th Circuit if it was first published on or after July 1, 1909 in noncompliance with US formalities, unless the author is known to have died in 1953 or earlier (more than 70 years ago) or the work was created in 1903 or earlier (more than 120 years ago.)[1] |
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