Work and sport contrasted: work as grimy and unhealthy factories, sport as playing with a ball in the sunshine amid flowers; representing the health benefits of sport and fresh air for industrial workers. Colour lithograph after Jean A. Mercier, 1940.

  • Mercier, Jean A., 1899-1995.
Date:
XII:40 [December 1940]
Reference:
5163i
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Description

The Commissariat Général à l'Education Générale et aux Sports was founded in 1940 by the Vichy government of Maréchal Petain and his Secretary of State for Education and Youth (the historian of ancient Rome J. Carcopino) in pursuit of Petain's aim of a "renaissance physique et morale de la jeunesse française"

Publication/Creation

[Paris?] : Commissariat Général à l'Education Générale et aux Sports, XII:40 [December 1940] (Paris : Imp. Bedos & Cie.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 118.5 x 80 cm

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Lettering

Travail. Sport. Commissariat Général à l'Education Générale et aux Sports. Jean A. Mercier XII:40.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 5163i

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