Émile Peynot
Encyclopedia
Émile Edmund Peynot was a prominent French Artist
and sculptor. He was born in the year 1880 and is well-known for his victory in the Prix de Rome
sculpture competition
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and sculptor. He was born in the year 1880 and is well-known for his victory in the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
sculpture competition
Famous Works
- One of his most famous pieces is a statue of Henri Schneider erected in his home town of Le CreusotLe CreusotLe Creusot is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom.Since the 1990s, the...
- Another famous work of his was the statue of an Arab cleaning his weapon, which sold for a lot of money in 2000