About This Item
Title
Glorieuses reliques
Остатки славы
Subject
Bereavement
Funeral Rites
World War I
Postcards
Description
Postcard with a painting of a French woman and her family receiving news of her husband's passing during World War I. She is comforted by a nun and being handed her husband uniform.
Original painting by Léonie Michaud.
Title from caption.
Date based on likely year of purchase by Dr. George W. Norris while stationed in France, 1917-1918.
Creator
Michaud, Léonie
Source
Original photograph in: Norris, George William, 1875-1965. Diary, World War I (Philadelphia, 1959), page 121. ZZ10c 5 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
between 1917? and 1918?
Language
fre
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZZ10c_5.121a
Temporal Coverage
History, 20th Century
Original Format
1 print : color (postcard format)
Physical Dimensions
9 x 14 cm
Citation
Michaud, Léonie, “Glorieuses reliques,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/1527.