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Ceux de la premiere heure. "Sire! ou en somme-nous de "la guerre fraiche et joyeuse"? ..."
c. 1914/1919
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black crayon on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 33 x 50.3 cm (13 x 19 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.4106
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Ceux de la premiere heure. "Sire! ou en somme-nous de "la guerre fraiche et joyeuse"? ...". Jean-Louis Forain; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Louis_Forain,_Ceux_de_la_premiere_heure._%22Sire!_ou_en_somme-nous_de_%22la_guerre_fraiche_et_joyeuse%22%3F_...%22,_c._1914-1919,_NGA_7225.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ceux de la premiere heure. "Sire! ou en somme-nous de "la guerre fraiche et joyeuse"? ..." — Jean-Louis Forain. c. 1914/1919.
Medium: black crayon on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 33 x 50.3 cm (13 x 19 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4106. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.