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Laura Leroux-Revault

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Laura Leroux-Revault
Born
Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux

14 September 1872
DiedJune 1936
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Laura Leroux-Revault (née Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux) (14 September 1872 – June 1936) was a French artist and painter, trained at the Académie Julian art school in Paris. Her first teacher was her father, the painter Louis Hector Leroux.

Early life

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Jean-Jacques Henner -Clelia Leroux (mother)

Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux was born on 14 September 1872 at Dun-sur-Meuse. She was the daughter of Giuditta Clelia Casali and Louis Hector Leroux (1829–1900), a successful French painter.[1]

Jean-Jacques Henner - Hector Leroux (father)

Her parents met when her maternal grandfather was the doctor who treated her father for wounds he received when serving in the Francs-tireurs de la Seine in the Battle of Buzenval, where his leg was broken by a projectile.[2] She had a younger brother Nicholas. Their father painted a portrait of the siblings in 1888.

Louis Hector Leroux--Frère et Soeur--1888 Nicholas (left) and Laura Leroux (right)

Career

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Laura Leroux trained at the Académie Julian art school in Paris. Initially a pupil of her father, she then trained under Jules Lefebvre and in Jean-Jacques Henner's studio. The two artists were friends of her father.[3]

Exhibitions

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Leroux-Revault exhibited works with the Société des Artistes Français.

  • 1892: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Fille de Roy (titre de l'inventaire), No. 1067.[4]
  • 1894: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Anne et Jehanne, No. 1158.[5]
  • 1896: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Jehanne Ire de Naples, No. 1242, et L'Heure de l'attente, No. 1243.[6]

Selected known works

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  • Bar-le-Duc, Musée barrois: Fille de Roy [titre de l'inventaire], 1892, oil on canvas, stolen during the night of 20 or 21 August 1985, current location unknown.[7][4]
  • Nancy, musée des Beaux-Arts: Anne et Jehanne, 1894, oil on canvas.
  • Verdun, musée de la Princerie: L'Attente ou L'Heure de l'attente, entre 1890 et 1903, oil on canvas.[8]
  • Jehanne Ire de Naples (Joan I of Naples), painting exhibited in 1896 in the Paris' Salon des Artistes français (Salon of French Artists). Current location Philadelphia, offered for sale on eBay.[9]

Portraits of Leroux-Revault by other artists

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Personal life

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In 1898, she married Louis Revault (1866–1950), a French industrialist and chocolate manufacturer who later became a député in Paris.[14][15] She became known as Laura Leroux-Revault.

Laura Leroux-Revault died in June 1936 in Auzéville in Argonne.[16]

References

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  1. ^ Acte de naissance No. 19, 14 septembre 1872, Dun-sur-Meuse, Archives départementales de la Meuse (avec mention marginale de mariage).
  2. ^ Gohel, Louis-Michel, et. al. Louis-Hector Leroux (Verdun 1829-Angers 1900). Peintures et esquisses, Musées de Bar-le-Duc et Verdun, Imprimerie du Barrois, January, 1988.
  3. ^ "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  4. ^ a b Base Joconde: Reference no. M0517007703, French Ministry of Culture. (in French).
  5. ^ Salon; Société des artistes français (1894). "Catalogue illustré du Salon... / publié sous la direction de F.-G. Dumas". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-27..
  6. ^ Salon; Société des artistes français (1896). "Catalogue illustré du Salon… / publié sous la direction de F.-G. Dumas". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2020-06-06..
  7. ^ "POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine".
  8. ^ Base Joconde: Reference no. M0525000540, French Ministry of Culture. (in French).
  9. ^ "Base Salons". salons.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  10. ^ Base Joconde: Portrait de Laura en vestale, French Ministry of Culture. (in French), page consultée le 23 août 2023.
  11. ^ Base Joconde: Portrait de femme, French Ministry of Culture. (in French), page consultée le 23 août 2023.
  12. ^ Base Joconde: Portrait de Laura Leroux, French Ministry of Culture. (in French), page consultée le 23 août 2023.
  13. ^ "Portrait de Laura Leroux". Musées d'Angers. Retrieved 2023-08-23..
  14. ^ Acte de mariage No. 1180, 4 août 1898, Paris, Archives de Paris (vue 23/31).
  15. ^ "Visionneuse - Archives de Paris". archives.paris.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  16. ^ "Petit courrier artistique". Comœdia (in French). (in French), 1936-06-14, p. 3, retrieved 2024-04-09