La triennale: Exposition d'art francaise an profit de la fraternite des artistes (Triennale: Exhibition of French art in aid of the artists' fraternity)

Place Europe: France
Accession Number ARTV07348
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 130 x 98 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre
[PARIS : S.N.], 1916 (PARIS : I. LAPINA)
Lapina Imprimerie
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

The poster depicts a soldier holding his rifle to his chest as he looks toward the distance at a farmer using bullocks to plough a field. There is a figure standing by the oxen waving an olive branch and this is the Marianne figure who is dressed in drapery and helmet of antiquity and holds a spear in her right arm while waving an olive branch, she represents peace in France. The poster is using an ideallic rural past to motivate soliders at the front to fight for traditional values. The text on the poster is advertising an exhibition of French art held to fund raise for the artists' fraternity.