Title: L'exode belge (The Belgian Exodus)
Artist: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
Date: 1915
Medium: Lithograph on off-white wove paper
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Item description: A stoic mother holding an infant leads a sea of children. L'exode, also called The March of the Orphans, depicts an evacuation from Belgium after a German attack. Between 1914 and 1915 nearly 200,000 refugees fled Belgium, including numerous orphaned children.