Édouard Cuyer

Born in Paris on June 8, 1852, Édouard Cuyer was a French painter and anatomist. He studied under Léon Bonnat and exhibited at the Salon between 1876 and 1888, building a career that joined studio practice with close scientific observation.

He later taught anatomy at the École nationale des arts décoratifs. That teaching role fits naturally with the books he published, including Anatomie artistique du corps humain (1886), Le dessin et la peinture (1893), and Histoire de l'anatomie plastique (1898), written with Mathias-Marie Duval.

Cuyer died in Boulogne-Billancourt on March 2, 1929. He is remembered less as a literary author than as a figure who helped artists understand movement, structure, and form through anatomy.