Framed French WWI School Poster with Vegetable Garden Design 26½" x 19¼"

A World War I French school-competition poster from the kitchen at Chanteduc, this spirited design is signed by Louisette Jaeger, age 14, and rallies families with “Cultivons notre potager” (Let’s grow our vegetable garden). From Patricia Wells’ personal collection, it has long hung in the Provence farmhouse she shares with Walter, a fitting companion to the potager, or kitchen garden, they have tended for decades. Patricia recalls, “I love that it was designed by a schoolchild. We bought it as part of a set, all with food-related themes.” Its message links frugal wartime ingenuity to the everyday pleasure of cooking from the garden that animates Patricia’s teaching and writing. Printed on paper and framed behind glass, the poster centers a bold cabbage with a cluster of carrots and a beet in chalky greens and warm orange, grounded by hand-rendered black lettering. The sheet shows gentle, even age toning consistent with its period, while the image remains crisp. A slim red frame with a cream mat and glazing lends clean structure and makes it kitchen-ready. Of a comfortable wall scale, it hangs beautifully above a worktable, near a pantry, or in a potting corner. A cheerful rallying cry for cooks and gardeners alike, ready to inspire the next planting and the next meal.