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Louis Lartet was born in Castelnau-Magnoac, in Seissan in the département of Gers. His father, Édouard Lartet was a prominent geologist and prehistorian who played a key role in the 1860s and 1870s in finding evidence that humans had lived during the Quaternary period and Louis continued his father's researches into human prehistory.
Portrait of Louis Valtat circa 1904 (age 35) by fellow painter Auguste Renoir. Louis Valtat (French pronunciation: [lwi valta]; 8 August 1869 – 2 January 1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves ("the wild beasts", so named for their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. [1]
Márta Lacza (born 1946), Hungarian graphic artist and painter; Pieter van Laer (1599–1642), French sculptor and painter; Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011), French painter; Emile Lahner (1893–1980), Hungarian/French painter; Annie Rose Laing (1869–1946), Scottish painter; Gerard de Lairesse (1640–1711), Dutch painter and art theorist
Édouard Lartet (15 April 1801 – 28 January 1871) was a French geologist and paleontologist, and a pioneer of Paleolithic archaeology. He is also known for coining the prehistoric taxon Amphicyon , making it one of the earliest-described fossil carnivorans in the palaeontological record.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Cro-Magnon 1 (Musée de l'Homme, Paris) Two views of Cro-Magnon 2 (1875) [7]In 1868, workmen found animal bones, flint tools, and human skulls in the rock shelter. French geologist Louis Lartet was called for excavations, and found the partial skeletons of four prehistoric adults and one infant, along with perforated shells used as ornaments, an object made from ivory, and worked reindeer antler.
Lartet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Édouard Lartet (1801–1871), French geologist and paleontologist; Louis Lartet (1840–1899), French geologist and paleontologist, son of Édouard
In 1961, a team under Louis Meroc successfully managed to dig at a site located 30 m (98 ft) from the first cave explored by Lartet. The new site, Aurignac 2, is characterized by the presence of large collapsed blocks. Tools found are mainly careened scrapers, more rarely retouched blades and no chisels.