A man holding a clarinet, celebrating Saint Cecilia's Day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1934.

Date:
[ca. 1934]
Reference:
2058881i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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A man holding a clarinet, celebrating Saint Cecilia's Day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1934. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The model poses against an Art Deco background. Various elements of the image have been hand-coloured.

Publication/Creation

Paris : JP, [ca. 1934]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard : print and gouache ; 13.6 x 8.6 cm

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Lettering

Vive Ste. Cécile. Made in France Bears number: 239. Inscribed on verso: Paul et alexandre. M. Paul Cardinal (?), Pruelle Rachot, no. 14, Mons. Nimy 1934.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: An example of a genre of postcard popular throughout Europe in ca. 1905-ca. 1940, which shows a young man, often wearing make-up, holding flowers, or engaged in feminine roles, and which were sent to men and women to mark saints' days, send congratulations, or convey sympathies. The postcards are often hand-coloured, as here. The styles have 'dated': viewers in a later time perceive them as comic; the men seem effete and stiffly formal; and the sometimes heavily made-up or re-touched male figures appear to be stereotypical 'queens'.
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

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Wellcome Collection 2058881i

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  • Romantic fantasy and comic postcards

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