File:Drawing of a young Poilu.WWI-era postcard art.Wittig collection.item 45.obverse.scan.jpg

Summary
Water-colour drawing of a young Poilu; head & shoulders in profile, wearing an off-duty flat-cap, rank markings shown but not (yet) identified). Pre-WWI-to-WWI-era postcard art.  Ink & watercolour drawing; drawn on a post-card blank, paper is heavily impressed/watermarked along the right margin.  Artist-signed, bottom left:  "____".  Back has standard postcard printed form, with no inscription (other than a later collector's notation in pencil "handgemalt" - handmade).  Postally un-used.  Created circa 1910(s).  More information would be appreciated; feel free to transcribe/translate.  Wittig collection, item 45; private collection, fam. Wittig et cie.

Created circa 1910(s), therefore obviously pre-1923; uploaded here to avoid Commons' "dual jurisdiction" PD rule.

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(reverse is also uploaded at File:Drawing of a young Poilu.WWI-era postcard art.Wittig collection.item 45.reverse.scan.jpg)