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Discover the collection’s themes

The artist provided lively illustrations of his daily life during the war. Jean Delpech’s drawings and engravings on the Second World War can be divided up into eleven thematic categories reflecting the diversity of his inspirations, often combining several graphic techniques and revealing an abundant, visionary, phantasmagorical body of work, sometimes further enriched with biblical, mythological and artistic references. 

Military service

On campaign

The Occupation

The imagined war

Liberation

Trophies and monuments

Delpech war reporter

War tanks

Warships

Allegorical works

Post-war works

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