Image: William Orpen - The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors

Description: A view of the interior of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, with the heads of state sitting and standing before a long table. Front Row: Dr Johannes Bell (Germany) signing with Herr Hermann Muller leaning over him. Middle row (seated, left to right): General Tasker H Bliss, Col E M House, Mr Henry White, Mr Robert Lansing, President Woodrow Wilson (United States); M Georges Clemenceau (France); Mr D Lloyd George, Mr A Bonar Law, Mr Arthur J Balfour, Viscount Milner, Mr G N Barnes (Great Britain); The Marquis Saionzi (Japan). Back row (left to right): M Eleutherios Venizelos (Greece); Dr Affonso Costa (Portugal); Lord Riddell (British Press); Sir George E Foster (Canada); M Nikola Pachitch (Serbia); M Stephen Pichon (France); Col Sir Maurice Hankey, Mr Edwin S Montagu (Great Britain); the Maharajah of Bikaner (India); Signor Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (Italy); M Paul Hymans (Belgium); General Louis Botha (South Africa); Mr W M Hughes (Australia). Note: This description was copied verbatim from the Imperial War Museum exhibit, where some names differ from their official spelling (Muller vs Müller, Eleutherios vs Eleftherios, Affonso vs Afonso, Saionzi vs Saionji, Patchitch vs Pašić, Stephen vs Stéphen). We keep the original text for historical accuracy.
Title: The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919title QS:P1476,en:"The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919" label QS:Len,"The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919" label QS:Les,"La firma de la Paz en el Galería de los Espejos, Versalles, 28 de junio 1919" label QS:Lfr,"La signature de la paix dans la Galerie des Glaces, Versailles, 28 Juin 1919" label QS:Lnl,"Het ondertekenen van de vrede in de Spiegelzaal, Versailles, 28 juni 1919" label QS:Lde,"Die Unterzeichnung des Friedens in der Spiegelsaal, Versailles, 28. Juni 1919" label QS:Lit,"La firma della pace nella Sala degli Specchi, Versailles, 28 giugno, 1919"
Credit: Imperial War Museum Collections: Website Webpage
Author: William Orpen
Permission: The author died in 1931, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 80 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term.
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