La Grenadière, Cover — Léonnec

An armistice-week cover translating the soldier-grenadier into feminine form, the pomegranate held aloft as an allegorical badge.

Drawn by Georges Léonnec. Published in La Vie Parisienne, 56ᵉ Année, N° 46. Paris, 16 November 1918.

Issued five days after the Armistice, this cover captures La Vie Parisienne's knack for converting headline events into elegant feminine emblems. Léonnec puns on 'grenadière' — both grenadier and grower of pomegranates — to picture the war's end as a fertile, decorative truce, reverting national imagery from the trenches to the salon.

Chromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 38.0 × 28.9 cm. Very Good.