--- title: Exposition coloniale, Marseille 1922 (Colonial Exhibition, Marseille 1922), poster by Leonetto Cappiello url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exposition-coloniale-marseille-cappiello-1922/ description: A laurel-crowned woman in white, blue and red draperies, an olive sprig in her hand, stands with raised arms above figures in varied non-European dress… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Exposition coloniale, Marseille 1922 (Colonial Exhibition, Marseille 1922), poster by Leonetto Cappiello](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/exposition-coloniale-marseille-cappiello-1922.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/exposition-coloniale-marseille-cappiello-1922.jpg) # Exposition coloniale, Marseille 1922 (Colonial Exhibition, Marseille 1922), poster by Leonetto Cappiello A laurel-crowned woman in white, blue and red draperies, an olive sprig in her hand, stands with raised arms above figures in varied non-European dress who offer her wheat, cotton, silks and fruit, under the dates 'Avril Novembre'. The tricolour and the classical personification of the Republic are attached to the colonial produce on show, so the exhibition is presented as a ceremony of peaceful tribute to France. - **Date:** 1922 - **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar) - **Made by:** Exposition nationale coloniale de Marseille 1922 (city, chamber of commerce and colonial administration); artist Leonetto Cappiello, printed by Devambez - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed) - **Regime:** [Poincare Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=poincare-government) - **Leader:** [Raymond Poincare](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=raymond-poincare) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [Marseille Colonial Exhibition 1922](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=marseille-colonial-exhibition-1922) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Bibliothèque nationale de France scan)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exposition_coloniale,_Marseille_1922_-_(affiche)_(Epreuve_au_format_120_x_75_cm)_-_Leonetto_Cappiello_-_btv1b9015066w.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons: Cappiello d. 1942; published 1922) Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), Les Nouvelles Affiches Cappiello / Atelier d'art Devambez, Paris, 1922. Bibliothèque nationale de France, ENT DN-1 (CAPPIELLO, Leonetto/8)-ROUL, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` EXPOSITION COLONIALE MARSEILLE 1922 AVRIL NOVEMBRE [left margin] LES NOUVELLES AFFICHES CAPPIELLO 32 Rue Beaujon, Paris ATELIER D'ART DEVAMBEZ [signature] Cappiello 1922 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` COLONIAL EXHIBITION MARSEILLE 1922 APRIL NOVEMBER THE NEW CAPPIELLO POSTERS 32 Rue Beaujon, Paris DEVAMBEZ ART STUDIO Cappiello 1922 ``` Archival shelf marks and reference numbers added by the library in the margins and bottom edge (for example 'W004764') and the colour-calibration strip at the foot are not part of the poster and are omitted. English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. [← Kreuzburg O.S. 25-pfennig note: "97% für Deutschland!" (Upper Silesia, 1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kreuzburg-97-percent-notgeld-1921/) [Mariquita, Legionaria: Muñecos recortables no. 69 (Mariquita, Legionnaire: Cut-Out Dolls no. 69) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mariquita-legionaria-paper-doll-1922/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)