Achille-Louis-Joseph Sirouy (29 November 1834 Beauvais - January 1904 Paris) was a French engraver, lithographer, painter and illustrator. He worked in Aurillac, Beauvais and Paris between 1849 and 1904. A pupil of Emile Lassalle and Thomas Couture, Sirouy produced numerous lithographs after Delacroix, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Meissonier, Tassaert and Ludwig Knaus, and large numbers of portraits of celebrities, statesmen and politicians. He depicted many mythological and biblical scenes, such… Read more...