Léon Choubrac (17 November 1847 – 5 April 1885), who sometimes signed his drawings with Hope,[1] was a French poster designer and illustrator based in Paris.

With his younger brother Alfred Choubrac, Léon was trained as a classical artist with the painters Charles Doërr and Isidore Pils at the École des Beaux Arts.

In the early 1870s, the Choubrac brothers and Jules Chéret (known as "the father of the modern poster") reduced the cost of colour lithography introducing technical advances.

[2][3] In 1884, the Paris city council started to rent out surfaces belonging to the municipality, paving the way for a rapid increase in the production and distribution of advertising posters.

Although Leon died young at the age of 37 in 1885,[6] his brother Alfred went on to produce an impressive number of posters for Parisian entertainers, theatres, businesses and various commercial products.