Project Description

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 65 cm x 81 cm

Signed lower right : H.Louyot

dated : 93

Louyot Henri landscape of Liverdun in Lorraine

The artist

Louyot Henry (25/09/1863 Nancy – in the years 40)

We know only little about this artist. He was born in 1863 and lived in Nancy between 1876 and 1884, then again, in 1888. In the meantime, it was reported the Saint-Die in 1886.

The painter spent his last years in Flavigny-sur-Moselle. He died before the war 1939-1945 at the age of 70-75 ans.

He remains single and we do not know his parents., nor familiar in Lorraine. The artist exhibited in Nancy around 1907 and painted vast spaces, sometimes animated characters or & rsquo; animals.

In particular, he will carry out an engraving dated April 1891 by Gisèle d'Estoc the very famous writer, pseudonymous sculptress of Marie-Paule Alice Curve.

Many works evoke the banks of the Moselle, Meurthe ; in its river landscapes, the boats are often resting under a hazy sky of Lorraine.

Sources : http://artlorrain.com/

Ladisla Warrior : “Lorraine painters and engravers”

His Liverdun landscape painting

The painter Louyot Henri recounts with a form of poetry this Lorraine landscape of liverdun somewhat disappeared nowadays. Emile Badel, the Lorraine scholar thus poeticizes this landscape in the following way…

The Liverdun and the loops of the Moselle

“Big round towers, dismantled and empty, old powers, sitting in the grass and mourning their lost valor, are there, at intervals of cherry and walnut trees, towers with enormous bases covered in ivy… a crown of greenery as beautiful as the proud battlements of yesteryear.

The valley then begins, valley of grace and mystery, the valley blooming with shrubs and heather roses, the valley where rocks come out of the old soil of Lorraine contemplate the good people passing by, amazed and delighted.

The valley of peace, adorable solitude in the heart of the wonders of Liverdun, s'en va, long time, long time, in the middle of a green ribbon of thin meadows, between the black fir trees and the orchards, gazing at the half-open caves, the rocks that jumped the ditch, the millennia that the rains have washed away and slowly penetrated. »

Emile Badel, The Sacred Mountains of Lorraine (1916)

Another landscape work is offered to you by the Gallery.