Labor, Mural, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C (NYPL b12647398-73812)
Summary
* Postcard series number: 70071
Continued the 14000 series. 70000 series issued with large gaps in numbering, may account for some unnumbered cards.
Pearce was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-Oise. He painted Egyptian and Algerian scenes, French peasants, and portraits, and also decorative work, notably for the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress at Washington. He received medals at the Paris Salon and elsewhere, and was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, decorated with the Order of Leopold, Belgium, the Order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark.
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Date
1905 - 1924
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New York Public Library
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