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French painter and printmaker (1867-1931), Eugène Béjot is famous for his cityscapes, mainly of Paris, and his detailed etchings. He also traveled to Holland, Spain, London, and French ports.
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Eugène Béjot, born on August 31, 1867 in Paris and died on February 28, 1931 in the same city, is a French painter and engraver. Son of Marie Eulalie Nolle and Alfred Joseph Béjot, he studied at the Académie Julian with Henri-Gabriel Ibels and frequented major figures in printmaking such as Henri Guérard, Félix Bracquemond and Auguste Lepère. Associate of the Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1893, he exhibited at the Salon until 1912, received a silver medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition and was elected member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in London in 1908. Béjot produced 436 original prints (etchings, soft-ground prints, aquatints) as well as lithographs and woodcuts, devoted to urban landscapes, notably Paris (The Seine in Paris,From the 1st to the 20th arrondissement of Paris,Boats of Paris). He also traveled to London, Holland, Spain, Antwerp and French ports such as Saint-Malo, Rouen and Bordeaux. He also painted several portraits of popular "types".
