Louyot Henri - Liverdun Landscape in Lorraine

Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 65 cm X 81 cm. Signed bottom right: h.louyot. Dated: 93. Louyot henri landscape of liverdun in lorraine. The artist. Louyot henri (25/09/1863 nancy - in the 1940s) Little is known about this artist. He was born in 1863 and lived in nancy between 1876 and 1884, and again in 1888. In the meantime, he was reported living in saint-dié in 1886. The painter spent his last years in flavigny-sur-moselle. He died before the war of 1939-1945 at the age of 70-75. He remains single and we don't know him any relatives or pets in lorraine. The artist exhibited in nancy around 1907 and painted vast spaces, sometimes animated by characters or animals. In particular, he produced an engraving dated april 1891 by gisèle d'estoc, the famous writer and sculptor pseudonym of marie-paule alice courbe. Many works evoke the banks of the moselle or the meurthe; in its river landscapes, boats are often resting under a misty lorraine sky. Sources: http: //artlorrain.com/ Ladisla harcos: "lorrain painters and engravers" His landscape painting of liverdun. The painter louyot henri relates with a form of poetry this lorraine landscape of liverdun somewhat disappeared nowadays. Emile badel, the lorraine scholar, thus poetizes this payment in the following way... The liverdun and the moselle loops. "big round towers, dismantled and empty, powers of yesteryear, sitting in the grass and weeping their lost valour, are there, at intervals of cherry and walnut trees, towers with huge bases and ivy hooded... Green crown as beautiful as the proud niches of yesteryear. The valley then begins, valley of grace and mystery, the flowering valley of shrubs and heather roses, the valley where rocks come out of the old lorraine soil contemplating the good people who pass by, stunned and delighted... Emile badel, the sacred mountains of lorraine (1916).

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