Title from caption on object: “’Weeping Frenchman’”

September 15, 1940

Marcel de Renzis

Associated Names
Marcel de Renzis

Artist, French, 1910 - 1998

United Press International

Publisher

This black-and-white photograph shows a group of adults from the waist up. The man in the front is facing us with his torso slightly turned to the left. He has pale skin and a round face with a receding hairline, and he wears a pinstripe suit, a white shirt, and a patterned tie. He appears to be crying, with his face in an expression of distress. Around him several other people are partially visible, with an older woman on the left wearing a hat and dark clothing, a woman on the right wearing a light-colored button-up shirt and a dark coat, and a man in a suit on the far right. They look towards us with more neutral expressions. The background consists of an out-of-focus building.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.3 × 24.1 cm (7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 25.3 cm (8 1/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.322

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Catherine Ryan; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; lower center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: NXP (INP) 1244416 RO / PORTRAIT OF AN AGE / (FOURTH OF TEN) / "WEEPING FRENCHMAN," MADE BY / GEORGE MEJAT OF FOX MOVIETONE NEWS AND / DISTRIBUTED BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, IS ONE OF / THE MOST POIGNANT PICTURES TO COME OUT OF / WORLD WAR II. IT SHOWS A FRENCH CIVILIAN / IN MARSEILLES WEEPING OPENLY AS HE WATCHES / HISTORIC FRENCH BATTLE FLAGS BEING TAKEN / ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN TO PREVENT THEIR / CAPTURE BY THE CONQUERING NAZIS IN 1940. / CREDIT LINE (UPI PHOTO) 9/17/6 / 9/17/60 KG / UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ROTO SERVICE

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