Louis Morin (artist)
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Louis de Gonzague Anne Optat Morin (5 August 1855 – 3 June 1938) was a French caricaturist, illustrator, sculptor and painter. He published some of his works using the aliases Loys or Loÿs.
Biography
Morin was born in Paris in 1855, the son of Joseph Morin, and his wife Marie Gervaise Olympe Muray. He was trained as an architect, but left that profession in favor of sculpture. As an author Louis Morin gained great distinction. His "Cabaret du Puits sans Vin," written in 1884, was crowned by the Académie Française, and later was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition.[1]
He died in Migennes in 1938.
Works
- Cabaret du Puits sans vin (1885).
- Les Aventures de Piképikécomegram, by Arsène Alexandre (1890, illustrator).
- Histoire de Manon Lescaut, by Antoine François Prévost (ca. 1890, illustrator).
- Le Petit Chien de la marquise, by Théophile Gautier (1893, illustrator).
- Les Cousettes (1895).
- Dimanches parisiens (1898).
- Carnavals parisiens (1898).
- Trois Filles et Trois garçons, by Maurice Montégut (1899, illustrator).
- Chansons légères, by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (1900, illustrator).
- Grand'Mère avait des défauts (1906).
- Fumées d'opium, by Claude Farrère (1919).
- Poésies, by Jean de La Fontaine (1931).
- Les Contes de Schmid (1931).
In English translation
- French illustrators. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1893).
Notes
- ↑ Emmanuel, Frank L. (1904). The Illustrators of Montmartre. London: A. Siegle, pp. 41–42.
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