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After the Victory (Au Lendemain de la Victoire)

Printer Imprimerie Kapp French
ca. 1918
Not on view
Many children lost loved ones to the war and were traumatized by the sounds and sights of combat. Ostensibly celebrating victory, this book, like much wartime propaganda for children, reflects these dark events. The cover shows a group of children—one in a military cap—constructing a small village; behind them, adults work on a real building, its neighbor a ruin. The book’s interior also presents images of rebuilding: each page shows a scene of destruction, but when a flap is raised, it shows the same site restored. Tanks become tractors, making fertile a countryside scarred by trenches and shells. A bombed classroom, abandoned save for a tabby cat, becomes filled with schoolboys in front of a map showing the reclaimed Alsace-Lorraine territory.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: After the Victory (Au Lendemain de la Victoire)
  • Artist: Anonymous, French, 20th century
  • Printer: Imprimerie Kapp
  • Publisher: Librairie Hachette and Co.
  • Date: ca. 1918
  • Medium: Color lithograph
  • Dimensions: 12 3/16 x 9 7/16 x 1/16 in. (31 x 24 x 0.2 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Lettys Eliot Hallock, 1985
  • Object Number: 1985.1064.4
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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