Charles Lucien Léandre

Charle Lucien Léandre ( born June 22, 1862 in Champsecret, Orne, † May 24, 1934 in Montmartre, Paris) was a French illustrator, cartoonist and painter.

Life

With 16 years Léandre in 1878 went to Paris and became a pupil in the studio of the painter Émile Bin. With his support, he was adopted along with his fellow students Maurice Eliot at the École des Beaux -Arts (EBA). There he was informed, inter alia, by Alexandre Cabanel.

In 1887 Léandre was able to attend regularly at the annual exhibitions of the Paris Salon. This one was on his attention and he was invited to participate in the world exhibition of 1889, as well as prompted by 1900. At that time it was already Léandre as one of the most important illustrators of his time.

1904 Léandre was instrumental in the founding of the Société des Peintres Humoristes Français.

Charles Lucien Léandre died four weeks before his 72nd birthday on May 24, 1934 in Paris, and found in the Cimetière de Montmartre his final resting place.

Honors

• Knight of the Legion of Honor
• 1921 Honorary Medal of the Société des Artistes Français
• 1925 Officer of the Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

• Enfants de marin
• Les jours longs
• Paysanne Normande
• La Résignée - mariée Normande

• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary. Blaizot, Paris 1931.
• Ludovic Halévy: La famille Cardinale. Testard, Paris 1893.
• Edmond Haraucourt Autre temps. Bibliophiles du Cornet, Paris 1930.