Marianne Loir

Marianne Loir
Born c. 1715
Paris, France
Died 1769
Nationality French
Education French Academy in Rome
Known for Portrait painter

Marianne Loir or Marie-Anne Loir (c. 1715 - 1769) was a French painter who specialized in portraits.

Biography

Portrait of a woman in a red dress with a black muff

Marianne Loir was born in Paris around 1715, daughter of the goldsmith Alexis II Loir and granddaughter of Nicolas Loir. Her brother, Alexis Loir (1712-1785), was a renowned sculptor.

She studied under Jean François de Troy (1679-1752), director of the French Academy in Rome, where Marianne stayed between 1738 and 1746. She became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1762, and seems to have stayed at Pau and Toulouse. In 1763 she was in Paris, where she completed a portrait of the young Antoine Duplas on 1 September. She left Paris in 1765 and moved to Provence.

She left ten paintings signed and dated between 1745 and 1769.

Works

Portrait de Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet c. 1748
Portrait of Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) - print by Rémi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux (c.1748-1823) After Marianne Loir

Works include:

Drawings, watercolors

Paintings

Titles, distinctions

Museums holding her work

Portrait presumed to be of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

References

Citations

    Sources

    • Kaiser, Christine; Salmon, Xavier; Hugues, Laurent (2003). L'Enfant chéri au siècle des Lumières. éd. l'Inventaire. p. 183. ISBN 2-910490-41-6. 
    • Larousse Grand dictionnaire universel 1982
    • Xavier Salmon, Pierre Gobert et Marianne Loir, Dossier de l'Art, n°62, 2 nov. 1999, p. 56-61
    • C. Constans, « Marianne Loir », Petit Larousse de la peinture, Paris, 1979, 1, p. 1042


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