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Edouard Drouot was born in Paris in 1859 and studied there under Thomas and Mathurin Moreau. He is better known as a genre painter and won a third class medal at the Salon of 1892 and an honourable mention at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 for such work. He is known for equestrian bronzes, as well as genre statuettes of semi-nude women, dancing or playing musical instruments.