A selection of postcards with designs by French artist Louis Hingre.
Louis Théophile Hingre (1832-1911) (also known as Théophile Hingre) was born on 19 November 1832 in Écouen. He was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator and poster artist. His specialty was sculptures of animals.
At the age of 12, he was apprenticed in Paris to the studio of Henri Louis Gervais and Adrien Possot to learn ornamental sculpture and manufacture of bronzes. His apprenticeship continued until he was 25. In 1851, at the age of 19, he married Louise Dailly. They had four children, Maximilien, Clémentine, Marguerite and finally Leon, who also became a painter, forging his career in England.
Hingre died, aged 79, on 12 November 1911 at the house of his daughter Clémentine in Écouen.
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