Peindre la Roumanie dans la Grande Guerre : Ion Stoica Dumitrescu (1886-1956), artiste-combattant sur le front de la diplomatie culturelle
Designing Romania through the Great war : Ion Stoica Dumitrescu (1886-1956), artist-soldier on the cultural diplomacy front

Summary/Abstract: Between 1919 and 1921, Romanian government donated to the Musée de l’Armée [French National Army museum], in Paris, a group of paintings, drawings and stamps commissionned to the artist-soldier Ion Stoica Dumitrescu (1886-1956) by the Romanian Army’s Great Headquarter.these works of art were immediatly exhibited in the frame of the new « Great War galleries »created during the conflict by general Gustave Niox (1840-1921), then director of the Musée del’Armée, and developped by his successor, general Gabriel Malleterre (1858-1923). Stoica Dumitrescu’sproduction and its donation to France can be analyzed as the byproduct – rooted in the raise of propaganda and cultural diplomacy – of a symbolic struggle towards the shaping and dissemination of Romanian self-representations in words and images. it aimed to remind French opinion of the tribute paid by Romania’s State, Army and Nation and its geopolitical new rank in post-WWI Europe.

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