LEmprunt de la Paix / Lebasque. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of LEmprunt de la Paix / Lebasque.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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LEmprunt de la Paix / Lebasque.
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In this lithograph, a mother nurses her infant in a warm domestic interior, a scene taken from Lebasque's painting *Maternité* and reworked into a call for public support. Printed in 1920, the poster promoted the *Emprunt de la Paix*, or Peace Loan, a French government bond issue meant to help fund recovery after the First World War. Pairing a tender image of motherhood with a financial appeal was deliberate: the bonds were presented as an investment in the nation's future and in the children who would rebuild it. The poster shows how postwar France used fine-art imagery to ask ordinary citizens to lend money to the state.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 114 x 79 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: The Peace Loan. From a painting by Lebasque entitled Materniteacute. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1920. Item is no. 45 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | War relief--France--1920. Breast feeding--France--1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--France. War bonds & funds--France--1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,765 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 358_LEmprunt_de_la_Paix_L_1920 |
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