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Description: | image: Marianne stands centrally placed, her head in profile facing to the right of the composition. Her hair tousled,
she wears a lace-up blouse undone at the neck, her sleeves rolled up. Below, a long peasant skirt almost to the ground, exposing a pair of
heeled sabots. In her extended right hand she holds a medieval sword, its point resting on the ground by her right foot. Her left hand
rests upon a carved milestone to the right of the composition. It bears the legend VERDUN with an accompanying arrow. Below that there is
engraved in the stone 1916 upon a laurel branch. The faint landscape in the background shows to right two mounds of the Verdun
fortifications, each emitting artillery smoke. The title stands at the bottom of the composition in simple copper-plate style, upper and
lower case. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Allegory military engineering battle of verdun 1916 siege Landscape portrait / personification events / anniversaries Artillery Marianne | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Boutet, Henri | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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