Louis Jehotte (7 November 1803 or 1804 – 3 February 1884) was a Belgian sculptor working in a realist tradition that was inflected, responsible for the bronze equestrian monument to Charlemagne erected on the in Liège, Belgium, in 1867. His bronze Cain Cursed stands outside the Academy Palace, and his statue of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on the current /, both in Brussels.
His father Léonard Jehotte (Herstal, 1 August 1772 – Maastricht, 1 August (!) 1851) was an engraver at the mint, in Liège. Louis was born in Paris. Université de Liège (Belgique) – Collections artistiquesAccording to Thieme-Becker, Vol. 18, 1925, p. 494 and Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, 25th. CD-ROM-Edition 2007 his birthplace was Liège. and studied at the Académie de dessin at Liège under François Joseph Dewandre. He taught sculpture at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.
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Jacques Stiennon, 1995. "Les arts plastiques", Wallonie: Atouts et références d'une Région, Freddy Joris, editor, (Gouvernement wallon, Namur)