Louis Monzi̬s (28 May 1849 Р13 March 1930) was a French painter and etcher. He was the curator of the three Museums of
Le Mans
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for 10 years until his death.
Career
Louis Monziès began to learn painting and etching in Paris in 1871 from the painters
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier
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and
Isidore Pils
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Biography
Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Le ...
. He got second-class and third-class medals in 1876, 1880 and 1881 at the annual
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Cherbourg
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and three children were born : Jean in 1889, Pierre in 1891 and Jacques in 1895. He lived then in Paris but he owned also a small house in Normandy near
The British Library
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or the
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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.
But with photo-etching and other new publication processes, etchers were less and less able to make a good living from their skills. Louis Monziès move to
Le Mans
Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...
and became a painting teacher and a painting restoration specialist. He began to paint landscapes and urban environments in Normandy and in other towns like
Venise
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or
Avignon
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. He sold a lot of watercolors and oil paintings before the First World War. A few of these paintings were sent to the US by American officers housed by the painter at the end of the war.
He became the curator of the Museums of
Le Mans
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in March 1920 and stayed so until his death in 1930.
Illustrated books and Art publications
Etchings after oil paintings
* Season of October (1894) after
Bastien-Lepage
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* The beggar (1881) after
Bastien-Lepage
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* Sarah Bernard (1881) after Clairin
* Portrait of the etcher Schmidt after de La Tour
* The bath (1897) after Demont Breton
* Self-portrait with his family (1891) after de Vos
* Portrait of
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(1880) after Duez
* Th birth after Duez
* Wedding at City Hall (1873) after Durand
* Portraits of Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards after
Leloir
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Seymour Lucas
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* Confidence after Stevens
* Rider on a sofa (1870) after Vibert
* Coquelin elder (1875) after Vibert
* Melon merchant (1876) after Vibert
* Lady Lindsay of Balcarres (1877) after
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* Hugo Van Der Goes at the convent of Rooden Cloestere (1875) after Wauters
* Flemish Postal Station after Wouwerman
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- ''
Les Orientales
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'', etchings
*
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- ''
Odes et ballades
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'', etchings
*
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, ''Jeanne d'Arc'', Hachette, 1888 : etchings after Bida
*
Musset
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, ''Å’uvres'', Lemerre, 1878 : etchings after
Pille
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, ''Å’uvres'', Lemerre, 1874 : etchings after Gravelot
*
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, frontispiece
*
Scarron
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* Shakespeare - ''Å’uvres'', Lemerre : etchings after
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* Uzanne - ''Caprices d'un bibliophile'', 1878 : etchings
* Voltaire - ''Romans'', Lemerre, 1878 : etchings after Monnet and Marillier
Etchings for English books
* Brooks - ''Dames and Daughters of the French Court '': portrait of Madame Valmore
* Charles and Mary Lamb - ''
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'', Heath & Co, 1908 : etchings
* Chevillard Lenoir - ''Celebrated Artists Sketches of Their Lives and Works'', Nims & Knight, 1888
* Comyns Carr - ''Examples of Contemporary Arts. Etchings from Representative Works by living English and Foreign Artists'', 1878 : etching "Lady Lindsay of Balcarres" d'après
Watts
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*
Hugo
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* Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback
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Musset
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