Émile Peynot

Émile Edmond Jean Peynot (November 22, 1850 December 12, 1932) was a prominent French artist and sculptor.

Émile Peynot
Émile Peynot by Charles Mengin
Born
Émile Edmond Jean Peynot

(1850-11-22)November 22, 1850
DiedDecember 12, 1932(1932-12-12) (aged 82)
AwardsPrix de Rome (1880)

Bio

Peynot was born in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Burgundy. He became well-known following his Grand Prize at the Prix de Rome sculpture competition in 1880,[1] and a left a legacy of numerous monuments and reliefs in France as well as Argentina and Ecuador. He died in Paris in 1932.

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