WWI Poster on National Loan. LEROUX. 3ème Emprunt... Lot 336

WWI Poster on National Loan. LEROUX. 3ème Emprunt de la Défense Nationale, souscrivez pour la France qui Combat! Pour celle qui chaque jour grandit! Colored poster measuring 114 x 80 cm. Bottom typographical data, left signature. Good condition. A patriotic First World War poster published in Paris in 1917 to encourage the French to subscribe to the Third National Defense Loan. The chosen theme is the touching embrace between a soldier, probably on his way to the front, and his little daughter, while in the background, uncolored, his wife breastfeeds a child.Posters were an excellent means of propaganda and many were created with allegorical 'patriotic' themes, intended to arouse emotion and generosity.Jules Marie Auguste Leroux (1871 - 1954) was a French painter and illustrator.