Do you think you may own a painting by Louis Adolphe Riou ?

Get a Riou Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Riou drawing.

For all your Riou artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Riou Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Riou painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Riou and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Riou experts and Riou certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Riou artworks.

Our Riou paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Riou certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Riou painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Riou paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Riou collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Louis Adolphe Riou art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Louis Adolphe Riou or we will sell it for you.

Louis Adolphe Riou was born in France in 1893. Riou studied at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon. Riou later continued his education by attending the School of Decorative Arts in Paris.

Riou’s talent began to show in his masterfully painted outdoor scenes. Riou started to exhibit extensively in France during the 1920s. A notable success was Riou’s entry in an autumn salon at the Tuileries.

Riou is known for being an Orientalist painter. Orientalism is style of art associated with a group of 19th-century artists in Europe who were fond of depicting harem girls, sheikhs and Middle-Eastern scenery. Riou along with artists such as Delacroix, Ingres and (Henri) Rousseau employed such eastern themes.

While many orientalists never spent time in the Middle East, Riou travelled to Morocco in 1931 to paint and study in a new culture and environment. Riou stayed in Morocco for many years and in 1939, Riou became a professor of fresco painting at the School of Fine arts in Cairo, Egypt.

Louis Adolphe Riou’s paintings are in museums and collections across the United States and Europe. Do you think you own a painting by Riou? Contact us, we are the Riou experts!