Le Départ des poilus, août 1914

Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 (French: Departure of the Infantrymen, August 1914) is a monumental mural by the American artist Albert Herter. The painting measures 12 by 5 metres (39 ft × 16 ft) and is displayed at the Gare de l'Est railway station in Paris, where it is suspended some 7 metres (23 ft) high on a wall in the Hall d'Alsace.

Herter's work was intended as a memorial to his elder son Everit, also a painter, who volunteered to join the US Army in September 1917, some months after the US joined the First World War. Everit Herter joined the camouflage section of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Sergeant Herter was killed in June 1918 near Château-Thierry in Aisne, while serving in France with the American Expeditionary Force, and is buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery. He had spent time in Europe with his parents before the war, including a period studying…

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