You see a small sculpture.  We see Gheorghe (the actual spelling) as having been born in Galati in 1892 or 1893, and having debuted his sculptural works in 1915, at a national salon. After fighting in World War I, Leonida continued art studies in Italy for three years.  Then in 1925, he moved to Paris, where Paul Landowski had just received the commission to collaborate with Heitor da Silva Costa in the conclusion of the architectural monument Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.  Leonida was hired by Landowski to sculpt the statue’s head. The work began in 1926, and was completed in 1931.  He continued sculpting, and died in the spring of 1942, falling off the roof of his family home in Bucharest, while picking linden flowers.  So this unassuming postcard is connected by only one degree of separation to one of the most famous statues in the world.  Grade: 1