L'Incendiare

Auguste Louis Lepère

Cleveland Museum of Art

Framed artwork titled "L'Incendiare" by Auguste Louis Lepère. Top half contains two pencil sketches side-by-side on beige paper. The left sketch depicts a man wearing a helmet with a large collar and baggy pants, holding an object. The right sketch shows a man in a similar helmet with a long jacket and pants, holding a long spear-like object and a gun. The bottom half contains two black and white images side-by-side. The left image shows a man in a helmet and uniform holding a long spear-like object with his right hand and a gun with his left hand. The man appears to be standing on burning clothes or other fabric. The right image is a mirror image of the left image. The frame has a greenish-gray border with a thin black line around the edge. The artwork is signed in small text at the bottom right corner.