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Edmond Louyot (French, 1861–1920) A Fine Group of Four French Oil on Canvas "The Four Seasons". One canvas depicting a standing cupid next to a Bacchus term, representative of "Summer", another depicting a standing Putto picking grapes and holding a wicker basket, representing "Autumn", another depicting a cupid picking up flowers, representing "Spring" and the last one depicting a Putto picking up hay, representing "Winter", all within a wooden frame. Signed: E. Louyot, 1892 and E. Louyot, '92. Circa: Lorraine, 1892.
Each Frame Height: 71 3/4 inches (182.3 cm)
Each Frame Width: 25 inches (63.5 cm)
Each Frame Depth: 3 inches (7.6 cm)
Each Canvas Height: 66 1/2 inches (168.9 cm)
Each Canvas Width: 19 1/2 inches (49.5 cm)
Ref.: A2733 - SOLD
Edmond Louyot (French-German, 1861–1920) was born on November 15, 1861 in La Lobe, commune of Arry, and died in the same commune on January 17, 1920. Louyot was a painter specialist in genre scenes, regionalist or anecdotal, and landscapes. He made his career as a painter in Germany and died in his native village, which became French again after the Treaty of Versailles.
Edmond Louyot was the second son of Camille Louyot, the Mayor of Arry at the time. He attended the primary school of Arry, then the minor seminary of Montigny-lès-Metz . Moselle having been annexed to the German Empire in 1871, the Louyot family decided, like the majority of Moselle residents, to stay there.
Showing more inclination for drawing than for orders, he obtained a scholarship and entered the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1884. He then took courses at the Munich School of Fine Arts, showing the way to the sisters Ilse and Lou Lazard and to Wilhelm Reue. Numerous exhibitions took him to France and major cities in Germany, allowing him to make a living from his passion.
Louyot's works are mostly kept in private collections in the United States (one of his paintings is notably kept by the Frye Museum in Seattle, it is undoubtedly one of the first paintings if not the first purchased by the collector) and in Europe. Two of his paintings are in the Cour d'Or museum in Metz . Part of his work was collected at the Georges-de-La-Tour departmental museum in Vic-sur-Seille in 2004. Several paintings have in fact been the subject of a donation to this museum. An exhibition presenting forty-three works was dedicated to him at the end of 2014 - beginning of 2015 at the Stadtmuseum de Deux-Ponts (Zweibrücken). A painting by Edmond Louyot is in the town hall of this city, three paintings are kept by the Pfalzgalerie from Kaiserslautern and a painting by the Flensburg Museum.
Museums:
• Museum of La Cour d' Or (Musée de La Cour d'Or de Metz), Metz, France
"Die Wäscherinnen am Ufer der Mosel/ Les Lavandières au bord de la Moselle," (The washerwomen on the banks of the Moselle) - Oil on Canvas - Circa: 1895
"Die Schnitterinnen/ Les Moissonneuses" - The Harvesters - Oil on Canvas -Circa: 1892
"Bildnis von Rita Louyot" - Reading a book - Oil on Canvas - Circa: 1908-1910
• Frye Art Museum - Seattle, Washington, USA - Oil on Canvas "Small Girl with Pigs" Circa: 1893
• Other works by Edmond Louyot (Photograph) "Der Apfel des Paris" (The Apple of Paris) - Circa: 1903
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