IN THE CONQUERED TRENCH 1915 Georges Leroux FRANCE WORLD WAR I PRINT

Original French 11 inch x 15 1/4 inch page with printed drawings titled A DEUX PAGES DE L’ALBUM DE GUERRE D’UN PRIX DE ROME PEINTURE

Drawn by Georges Leroux (1877 - 1957). Georges Leroux is considered a painter, engraver and illustrator from the French school. At the outbreak of the First World War, Leroux joined the French Army and served on the Western Front in France and Belgium. He later recalled how on one reconnaissance mission he saw "a group of French soldiers taking shelter in a great shell-hole full of water". That evening he made sketches of what he had seen and later painted "L'Enfer (Hell)."

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

The page is in fine condition. Printed text and a photograph on the reverse.