ABSTRACT
In spring 1918, the American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd and the French sculptor Jane Poupelet opened, in Paris, the Studio for Portrait Masks to help restore the features of soldiers who had suffered severe facial injuries during the First World War. Working in collaboration with military hospitals the women sculptors crafted prostheses of a very special kind, a metallic simulacrum of the missing section of the wounded soldier's face which could be worn, like a mask, over the injury.1
