Fashionable Parisienne, Cover — Léonnec

An elegant wartime cover from the most stylish weekly in Paris, presenting the city's fashionable woman as its presiding emblem.

Drawn by Georges Léonnec. Published in La Vie Parisienne, 56ᵉ Année, N° 20. Paris, 18 May 1918.

Georges Léonnec was one of the magazine's most recognisable cover artists, known for his chic, gently risqué portraits of the modern Parisienne. Issued in the closing months of the First World War, this cover registers the magazine's continuing investment in fashion and femininity as a kind of cultural resilience while the conflict ground on.

Chromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.1 × 28.6 cm. Very Good.