Identity:

Émile-Louis Vernier was a painter and printmaker.

Life:

He specialised in lithography, and particularly in artistic reproductions including 10 lithographs after Courbet.

He is recorded in the Paris street directory as follows: 1857-1861, Vernier E., dessinateur-lithographe, 62 bis Rue Enfer; 1862-1863, Vernier E., dessinateur-lithographe, Rue Mazarine 37;

1861-1862, Vernier, Emile, artiste lithographe, Rue Acacias-Montmartre 40; 1868, 1870 -1876, Vernier, Emile, artiste lithographe et peintre, 40 Rue Fontaine, St Georges;

Several artists of similar name are also recorded in the directory, and some may in fact be Émile-Louis Vernier or a relation. They are as follows:

1854-1856, Vernier E., papeteries et couleurs, Sevres 79;

Vernier, Emile, 1870-1876, Clignancourt 9;

Vernier, Emile, artiste-sculpteur, 1863, 1865,1866, 4 Rue Poulet; 1868, Vernier, Emile, 17 Rue Poulet; Vernier Em., artiste sculpteur, 1877, [Sunatr 6?];

Vernier, Emile, peintre-artiste, 1885, 1887, 1888, Boulevard Clichy 6.

1858-1863, Vernier E., peintre-artiste, Rue Madame 52; 1859, Vernier E., Peintre artiste, Quai Napoleon 25;

Vernier, peintre artiste, 1875-1878, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1887, Rue Grenelle, St-Germain 24;

Vernier E. S., sculpteur-statuaire 1877, 1878, 1880, 1881, 1884, 1885, Rue Guillemonot 6;

Vernier E. S., peintre artiste, 1877, Avenue Trudaire 17; 1878, Avenue Trudaire 25.

Bibliography:

Bottin, Sebastien, Almanach du Commerce de Paris ..., Paris; Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, 1956-61.