Under the Shadow of the WW I

That's it a totally differant picture. Contrast could not be geater. The faces are depressed and have lack of expression and are looking in the direction of nowhere as in a îoozen picture, spontanity is totally loosed. Ivo looks as an old man who loosed his vitality. It's like they came together for a last common picture in the knowledge that this war could take away some of the members of the family or separe them.  And indeed the oldest son André will do his military service in the army, Jules  will die in 1917 before the end of the war and Anna  one year after the war finished

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In the same picture we see the different family members