Édouard Riou

Style: Romanticism;

Place: Saint-Servan-Sur-Mer

Born: 1833

Death: 1900

Biography:

Édouard Riou (French: [edwaʁ ʁju]; 2 December 1833 – 27 January 1900) was a French illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, as well as several other well-known works. Riou was born in 1833 in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, and studied under Charles-François Daubigny and Gustave Doré, graduating in 1859. Apart from supplying designs for wood-engravings, his artistic specialties included landscape painting and commemorative art. His collaboration with Jules Verne started in 1865 with the publication of Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, and continued for a run of six novels in all. Riou also illustrated Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1880) and Waverley, Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Louis Figuier's La terre avant le deluge (1863), Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1887). He became a member of the Legion of Honour. Riou died in Paris on January 27, 1900.