LOAN AND TWO MISERS 1915 Lucien Jonas FRANCE WORLD WAR I PRINT

Original French 11 inch x 15 1/4 inch page with printed painting titled L’EMPRUNT ET LES DEUX AVARES

Where do I come from, Pere Grandet?... from the House of Moliere to bring my money to the counter.

He will be well placed, Harpagon; I also come to deposit mine and Eugenie's dowry; we will have good interests.

From the painting by Lucien Jonas (1880 - 1947). French painter. In February 1915, he was approved as the "Military Painter attached to the Army Museum". From mission to mission, he traveled the front, from Belgium to the Vosges, then he was asked to paint portraits of military leaders, such as French (March 15, 1915) and Pershing (August 14, 1917), Foch (the day after his appointment as generalissimo). In total, seven to eight hundred oils, and nearly four thousand drawings reproduced in large numbers in L'Illustration, Annales, Lectures pour tous and in the Allied newspapers.

On the reverse is the printed painting titled ”LE 5%, C’EST LE VIEUX FONDS FRANCAIS...”

Painted by Louis Rémy Sabattier (1863 - 1935). A French artist best known for his work for the magazine l'Illustration over a forty-year period.

The page comes from the French magazine L’ILLUSTRATION, November 1915

The page is in fine condition.