Background
Riou was born in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, on February 2, 1833.
(Illustration Published 1892 in Paris in Édouard Charton's...)
Illustration Published 1892 in Paris in Édouard Charton's Tour Du Monde Magazine ('around the World'), to Go with An Article on the Stairs Expedition to Katanga Written from the Journal of Explorer Christian De Bonchamps.
(During a Stand-off in negotiations, this group arrived in...)
During a Stand-off in negotiations, this group arrived in the expedition's fortified camp with a message from Msiri (note the tent and palisade in the background, right). The drummers kept playing all the time, and the expedition only found out later these were talking drums, and the drummers were sending information about the camp's defences, number of armed men and their deployment to Msiri.
Riou was born in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, on February 2, 1833.
Édouard Riou studied under the supervision of Charles-François Daubigny and Gustave Doré. He completed his studies in 1859.
Riou artistic specialties included engraving, landscape painting and commemorative art (including works for the opening of the Suez Canal and the marriage of a daughter of the Czar).
In 1865 he started his collaboration with Jules Verne, with the publication of Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, which included 40 illustrations by Riou. Later they collaborated on six more novels, such as The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1867); The Children of Captain Grant (1868); Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1871); The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875).
Édouard Riou also produced illustrations for Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, Louis Figuier's La terre avant le deluge (1863); Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1880) and Waverley; Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo (1887).
A Boma in the Forest
(Illustration Published 1892 in Paris in Édouard Charton's...)
Msiri's Interpreter and Spies in the Stairs Expedition's Camp at Bunkeya
(During a Stand-off in negotiations, this group arrived in...)
Msiri's Compound at Bunkeya
(The Objects on Top of the Four Poles, Around Which Some o...)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
La France Dans L'afrique Occidentale
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Ridpath's Universal history
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Main Street in N'dar-tout
Louis-gustave Binger of French West Africa in 1892 Treaty Signing with Famienkro Leaders, in Present Day N'zi-comoé Region, Côte D'ivoire
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
A Whale Swims Between Two Icebergs, Where It is Crushed
Nemo Second
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Die Gartenlaube (the Garden Arbor)
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hammam-bou-ghrara (i.e. Hammam-boughrara)
Nautilus Salon
Unidentified Railway Station on Dakar-saint-louis Line
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Nautilus Nemo Room
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Bodo Fort, Interior and Exterior, Colonial French Africa
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Railway Station in Kayes
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Saint-louis Seen from N'dar-tout
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Boubakar-saada, King of Bundu
Journey to the Center of the Earth
"le Marché De Salaga"
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Press Illustration of Act 1 of the Premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Operetta La Grande-duchesse De Gérolstein at the Théâtre Des Variétés in Paris on 12 April 1867 from L'univers Illlustré (27 April 1867)
Gravure Du Journal Le Monde Illustré N° 38 Du 2 Janvier 1858
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Public Fountain in Saint-louis
Abraham Lincoln
Bogas Conduisant Les Champans
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Press Illustration of Act 1 of the Premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Operetta La Grande-duchesse De Gérolstein at the Théâtre Des Variétés in Paris on 12 April 1867 from L'univers Illlustré (27 April 1867)
Mosque in Salaga in Ghana, of Traditional Baked-mud Sudano-sahelian Architecture. by Édouard Riou in 1892.
Wolof Girl in Saint-louis
Fort of Bamako, Built in 1883
Ridpath's Universal history
Journey to the Center of the Earth
journey to the Center of the Earth
"une Mosquée De Kong"
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Gravure Extraite Du Monde Illustré
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Journey to the Center of the Earth
A French Trading Post in Pounégui, Colonial Africa.
Pêche À La Sardine Sur Les Côtes De Bretagne. Dessin De Riou D'après La Photographie Du Commandant L. Hautefeuille.
Ardjoumani Et Ses Fils, Roi De Bondoukou
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Rufisque
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Arrival in Kong of New French West Africa Governor Louis-gustave Binger in 1892, in Northern Present Day Côte D'ivoire
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
View of Gorée
A Ship in a Hurricane.
Story Le Rubis Du Grand-lama
Msiris Compound
Ridpath's Universal history
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
journey to the Center of the Earth
Huge Trees over People in the Famienkro 'village Square' in the N'zi-comoé Region of Southeastern Côte D'ivoire
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Nautilus Library Nemo Aronnax
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Sailing Ship of Messageries Maritimes
Street with Buildings of Traditional Baked-mud Sudano-sahelian Architecture in Bondoukou, in the Sub-saharan Sahel—tropical Savanna Belt Region of Northern Côte D'ivoire
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Residence with Palm Frond Roof in Bettié, in Côte D'ivoire
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Maria De Fonseca, Daughter of a Portuguese-angolan Trader
Khassonke Girl
"five Weeks in a Baloon" and "journey to the Center of the Earth"
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Mosque in Sorobango, of Traditional Baked-mud Sudano-sahelian Architecture, in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
Quotes from others about the person
Edmondo Marcucci: "Riou’s drawings are rich with light, and the traits of his characters have a vigorous expression. Riou succeeds in adapting himself artistically to the realistic reproduction of the many fantastic locales of the Vernian fictional geography: the mists and the glacial icepacks, the shadows inside the Earth’s crust, the deserted and expansive beaches, and the many bodies of water and their movement... Everything is both ordered and evocative in Riou’s work - his style might be called 'romantic realism.'"
Ron Miller: "I believe his work stylistically spans the transition between the illustrators of the early 19th century and those of the latter half - when the profession of professional illustrators became established. Some of the qualities that Riou carried over were the often cartoon-like depiction of characters and the use of numerous ‘spot’ illustrations."