untitled (four standing civilians)

Charles-Lucien Léandre, artist

1862–1934

untitled (four standing civilians), 1917

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: Conté crayon

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 54.5 x 47 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 7/16 x 18 1/2 in

Credit line: Gift of Professor Eric Gustav Carlson

Accession number: 2014.2145

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Charles-Lucien Léandre was a caricaturist who contributed to the leading French caricatural journals such as Le Rire (Laughter) and L’Assiette au Beurre (The Plate of Butter). There are 36 works by Léandre in the Carlson Collection. In this composition, three generations of a displaced family wander away from ruins. The young father is conspicuously missing and is presumably on the front lines of battle, or already a war casualty.