Crédit National
1920
Artist
René Lelong
Printer
Imp. Joseph Charles, Paris
DIMENSIONS
44 1/2 x 31 in. (113 x 78.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.230
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Bonds, Children, France, Homefront, Political, Sledgehammer, Tools, War, Woman, Worker, WWI
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Peter A. Blatz
KEYWORDS
Bonds, Children, France, Homefront, Political, Sledgehammer, Tools, War, Woman, Worker, WWI
René Lelong was also commissioned by a French bank to design this poster urging French civilians to subscribe to the 1920 National Loan, intended to support postwar reconstruction. Like his other fundraising posters of the period, it shows the figure of Marianne. Here, however, she is the central focus of the composition, dressed in eye-catching red robes as she raises a mallet above her head, participating enthusiastically in the restoration of her war-torn country.
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