Émile Peynot

Émile Edmund Peynot (November 22, 1850 – December 12, 1932) was a prominent French artist and sculptor.

Peynot was born in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Burgundy. He became well-known following his Grand Prize at the Prix de Rome sculpture competition in 1880, and a left a legacy of numerous monuments and reliefs in France as well as Argentina and Ecuador. He died in Paris in 1932.

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