Charles Lucien Léandre (Champsecret, July 22, 1862 - Paris, May 24, 1934) was a French painter and lithographer. He was also an excellent draftsman and a well-known caricaturist.
The son of a career officer (who was also mayor of his commune all his life), Charles Léandre moved from Normandy to Paris at the age of sixteen, where he was welcomed in 1878 by the painter Émile Bin, who became his teacher. Two years later he enrolled at the Paris School of Fine Arts and was assigned to the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel. He won competitions and prizes, for antique drawing in 1883 and for atelier work in 1884 and 1886.
In 1882 he passed the competition to teach drawing as professor of the schools of the city of Paris and taught until 1897. In that same year he was admitted to exhibit at the Salon of French artists with the painting "Fanchon la tricoteuse" (Fanchon working Knitted).
At the Universal Exhibition of 1889 he received a bronze medal for a large canvas: "The mother" or "I sleep but my heart watches".
In 1904 he created the "Society of humorist painters".
In 1921 he received the medal of honor of the "Society of French artists" for the "engravings" section, which was one of the most prestigious awards an artist could obtain. In 1925 he was promoted Officer of the Legion of Honor.
Léandre died in 1934, in his Paris atelier on rue Caulaincourt, but was buried in Normandy.
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