Repas en famille

Jeanne, Madeleine, René and Marcel Koehler sit at a table outdoors and have a small meal, while Marcel pours tea. Occasionally the dog leaps into view, but no one seems to know his name.

Marcel seems to be a round-shouldered man, a bit cramped under the circumstances. That is, I believe, an artifact of the shoot. Although we are used to these compositions in the movies and on the stage, in which people sit on one side of a table, the reason that is done is so that we can see everyone's face. In my family, we sit around a table, and can see everyone's face, but that's not how anyone looking at the table would prefer it.