Carnet d’un permissionnaire (Notebook of a Soldier on Leave)

Guy Arnoux, artist

1886–1951

Roger Boutet de Monvel, author

Carnet d’un permissionnaire (Notebook of a Soldier on Leave), 1917

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: pochoir

Credit line: Museum purchase: Elmer F. Pierson Fund

Accession number: 2008.0321

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Exhibition Label: "Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts," Mar-2010, Steve Goddard This pochoir booklet, one of three done by Arnoux and Monvel during the War, sets out in image and text an upbeat view of the activities of a soldier on leave. The pages shown here poke fun at those who go out at night to find a good spot for viewing Zeppelins.