Jean Baptiste Louis GUY
 (Lyon, 1824 – Lyon, 1888)

 Mountain landscape
 Oil on cardboard
 Signed lower right
 27 x 25 cm

 Louis GUY was a young student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, where he entered at the age of 15 in 1839. He continued to study there until 1846. He worked there under the guidance of Claude BONNEFOND and Jean Antoine DUCLAUX. His first exhibition was naturally at the Salon in Lyon in 1840, then after an unsuccessful attempt in 1843, Louis GUY did not try the experience of exhibiting in Paris again until quite late in 1868, this time with success, and then stayed there until 1879.

 He was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1871 and had under his guidance artists such as Augustin Pierre CHENU, Armand BERNARD, Franck BAIL, Charles Joseph BEAUVERIE and Charles MONTLEVAULT. He was also director of a municipal drawing school.

 Louis GUY was renowned for his paintings with lively drawing and precise tonality. In the Revue les Beaux-Arts, Volume ten, the artist is praised for his great qualities of mind and firm execution… The Lyon artist rendered this scene with an astonishing verve of poetry or again in L'art du XIXème siècle, 2ème année: We cannot leave this inventory of the most remarkable works without talking about Monsieur GUY. He also practiced watercolor, lithography and etching, of which he produced around seventy colored works, forty-seven of his plates of which were collected by F. DESVERNAY in an album: Louis Guy, painter and etcher. He also designed stained glass window designs for the church of Saint-Louis de la Guillotière in Lyon, portraits and illustrations for the works of Alexis ROUSSET.

 Museums : Chambéry, Lyon, Morez, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse…