Édouard Riou

E781768

French artist engraver illustrator painter person

Édouard Riou was a 19th-century French illustrator best known for his detailed engravings in Jules Verne’s adventure novels.

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Label	Occurrences
Édouard Riou canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French artist ⓘ engraver ⓘ illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ
activeInPeriod	19th century ⓘ
artisticMedium	book engraving ⓘ drawing ⓘ wood engraving ⓘ
birthDate	1833-12-02 ⓘ
birthPlace	Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ France NERFINISHED ⓘ Ille-et-Vilaine NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Servan NERFINISHED ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Jules Verne NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre-Jules Hetzel NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
deathDate	1900-01-27 ⓘ
deathPlace	France ⓘ Paris ⓘ
familyName	Riou NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	book illustration ⓘ engraving ⓘ painting ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	adventure illustration ⓘ scientific romance illustration ⓘ
givenName	Édouard NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasWorkLocation	Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
illustrated	"In Search of the Castaways" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Journey to the Center of the Earth" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Les Enfants du capitaine Grant" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" (early editions, with others) NERFINISHED ⓘ "Voyage au centre de la Terre" NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	depictions of exotic landscapes ⓘ detailed engravings ⓘ visualizing scenes from science fiction and adventure literature ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
movement	19th-century illustration ⓘ
name	Édouard Riou NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	French ⓘ
notableFor	illustrations for Jules Verne’s novels ⓘ
notableWork	illustrations for "Voyages extraordinaires" series ⓘ
occupation	engraver ⓘ illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ
representedIn	collections of 19th-century French illustration ⓘ
workedOn	illustrated editions of Jules Verne’s adventure novels ⓘ

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Subject: Édouard Riou
Description of subject: Édouard Riou was a 19th-century French illustrator best known for his detailed engravings in Jules Verne’s adventure novels.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas → hasIllustrator → Édouard Riou ⓘ