GENERAL DE CASTELNAU, CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF 1915 Lucien Jonas WORLD WAR I

Original French 11 inch x 15 1/4 inch page with printed portrait titled LE GENERAL DE CASTELNAU, CHEF D’ETAT-MAJOR GENERAL

Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851 – 1944) was a French army general, army group commander and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces during the First World War.

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 another printed portrait by Lucien Jonas titled SIR DOUGLAS HAIG

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (1861 – 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras, the Third Battle of Ypres, the German Spring Offensive, and the Hundred Days Offensive.

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

The page is in fine condition.