Artist: Armand Queyroy (Mathurin Louis Armand Queyroy) (French, 1830-1893).
Title: Old Well at Orleans
Medium: Original Etching on laid paper.
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right
Dimensions: Image Size 6 3/8 x 10 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches..
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Armand Queyroy (Mathurin Louis Armand Queyroy) was a French aquafortist engraver. From 1852 to 1856, Armand Queyroy was a pupil of Évariste-Vital Luminais from 1852 to 1856. In 1857, after his marriage with Julie Watelet, daughter of a notary, from a large family in the city, he moved to Moulins . The couple will had two children: Gustave, who will become an officer, and Marie. In 1862 he was appointed curator of the municipal museum of Moulins . He also participated in the birth of the Vendome Museum, his hometown. Close to critic Philippe Burty , engraver confirmed, he is a member of the Society of Aquafortists 2 co-founded by Alfred Cadart : he produced, among other things, six prints for L’Illustration nouvelle (1868-1881). Queyroy was also an art collector.