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

Summary
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.''

Created during WWI, therefore obviously pre-1923; uploaded here to avoid Commons' "dual jurisdiction" PD rule.

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