Nicot, Louis

Louis NICOT

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Among his works are cited: The Girl with Greyhound in Paris in the Luxembourg Gardens, Evangeline (Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes), the Martyrdom of Longfellow Annaïg Mam Goz of Faouët, many Breton ceramics, including The Three Wives, The Leonard and the Calf, The Merchant Chickens, on behalf of the potter Henriot at Quimper, and the Lying Greyhound for André Fau at Boulogne -sur-Seine (Paris). He also sculpted busts of Admiral Guépratte and Charles Le Goffic, and many monuments to soldiers who died for France, working stone of Kersanton.

His Memorial Guémené- Penfao (Loire -Atlantique), with a sober design, represents a local woman , standing , crying a dead soldier lying at his feet. A street bears his name Rennes ( rue Louis -Henri Nicot ) . Several of his works are presented or preserved by Brittany Departmental Museum ( Quimper ) : bronzes ( " Ouessantine adjusting her cap " ) , plaster , ceramics ( modeling for " Brittany between Arthur and Merlin" , terracotta , and several earthenware Quimper) .