Louis Jehotte (7 November 1803 or 1804 – 3 February 1884) was a prominent Belgian sculptor working in a realist tradition that was inflected, responsible for the bronze equestrian monument to

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks from 768, List of kings of the Lombards, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian ...

erected on the in

Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...

, Belgium, in 1867. His bronze '' Cain Cursed'' stands outside the

Academy Palace The Academy Palace or Palace of the Academies ( ; or ) is a Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium. It was originally built between 1823 and 1828 for William II of the Netherlands, Prince William II of Orange. No ...

, and his statue of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on the current /, both in Brussels. His father Léonard Jehotte (Herstal, 1 August 1772 – Maastricht, 1 August (!) 1851) was an engraver at the mint, in Liège. Louis was born in Paris. Université de Liège (Belgique) – Collections artistiques
/ref>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

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels ( ''(ArBA-EsA)''; ) is an art school in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1711. Starting from modest beginnings in a single room in Brussels Town Hall, Brussels' Town Hall, it has since 1876 been operat ...

. Mechelen St Rombouts Memorial Grave de Mean 01.jpg, Monument for Franciscus de Méan in Mechelen Karel van Lorreinen 28-12-2007 11-39-07.jpg, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1848, Brussels) Wlovesmon 36.jpg, ''Cain cursed'' in Brussels Charlemagne-liege-2.jpg, Statue of Charlemagne in

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Jacques Stiennon, 1995. "Les arts plastiques", ''Wallonie: Atouts et références d'une Région'', Freddy Joris, editor, (Gouvernement wallon, Namur)
1800s births 1884 deaths 19th-century Belgian sculptors 19th-century Belgian male artists {{Belgium-sculptor-stub