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Jacques Joseph Léopold Loustau, (26 May 1816 - 4 June 1894) was a deaf nineteenth century French painter who studied under Louis Hersent and Léon Cogniet.

Biography
Léopold Loustau was born deaf in Saarlouis, Germany, on 26 May 1815, to an intendant general of the Napoleonic Army and the heiress of a major metallurgic industry in the Lorraine region.

He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris under the tutelage of Hersent and Cogniet.

Death
On 4 June 1894, Loustau died of a cerebrovascular accident while working in his studio.