PLAYER PIANO OF THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE 1915 Georges Leroux FRANCE WORLD WAR I

Original French 22 inch x 15 1/4 inch page with 2 printed watercolours titled LA RELEVE D’UN PETIT POSTE & LE PIANO MECANIQUE DE LA BATAILLE DE LA MARNE

Piano Mecanique Watercolour by Georges Bruyer (1883 - 1962). A French illustrator.

La Releve Watercolour 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)."

On the reverse is a drawing titled LE LECON DU CADET by Georges Scott (1873 - 1943). A French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine L'Illustration during the early 20th century. Scott specialized in military paintings and drawings and was officially appointed Painter of the Army, covering World War I in France and in the Balkans.

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

The page is in fine condition with a vertical centre fold with 2 staple holes along it.