- Louis Jéhotte
Louis Jéhotte (
November 7 , 1803 or 1804 -February 3 ,1884 ) was a prominent Belgian sculptor working in a realist tradition that was inflected, who was responsible for the bronze equestrian monument toCharlemagne erected in the boulevard d'Avroy,Liège , in 1867. His bronze "Cain Maudit" stands outside thePalais des Académies , Brussels, his "Charles de Lorraine" in the Place Royale, Brussels.His father Léonard Jéhotte (Herstal, 1. August 1772 - Maastricht, 1. August (!) 1851) was an engraver at the mint, at Liège. His son Louis was born in Paris. [ [http://www.ulg.ac.be/wittert/fr/flori/opera/jehotte/jehotte_l_notice.html Université de Liège (Belgique) - Collections artistiques] ] According to "Thieme-Becker", Vol. 18, 1925, p. 494 and "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon", 25th. CD-ROM-Edition 2007 his birthplace was Liège.] and studied at the Académie de dessin at Liège under François Joseph Dewandre. He taught sculpture at the Brussels Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts.
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* [http://www.wallonie-en-ligne.net/1995_Wallonie_Atouts-References/1995_ch13-4_Stiennon_Jacques.htm Jacques Stiennon, 1995. "Les arts plastiques", "Wallonie: Atouts et références d'une Région", Freddy Joris, editor, (Gouvernement wallon, Namur)]
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