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 to Charlemagne erected in the boulevard d'Avroy, Liège, in 1867. His bronze ''Cain Maudit'' stands outside the Palais 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.^[1] 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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1. Université de Liège (Belgique) - Collections artistiques

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★ Jacques Stiennon, 1995. "Les arts plastiques", ''Wallonie: Atouts et références d'une Région'', Freddy Joris, editor, (Gouvernement wallon, Namur)