Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux

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Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (1770^[1] - 1826) was a French painter. She was one of the David's pupils in 1787.

Her mother, Marguerite-Marie Lombard, came from Toulose and her father, René Laville-Leroux came from Bretagne. She exposed in some exhibitions with her sister Marie-Guillemine^[2] like in the exhibitio of la place Dauphine in 1786 with Dame en satin blanc, garnie de marte, in 1788, Artémise serre sur son cœur l'urne contenant les cendres de Mausole, in 1789, Une Vestale infidèle; in 1791, she exhibited in the Salon de l'Académie, Artémise.

In 1794, she married baron Dominique Larrey^[3].

[edit] References

• Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1967, page 244, note 1, (non consulté).
• Astrid Reuter, Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, Gestaltungsraüme einer Künstlerin um 1800, Lukas Verlag, Berlin, 2002, pages 109-111.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ La date de 1770 est donnée par Astrid Reuter, page 109.
2. ^ Et de Henriette née en 1772.
3. ^ According to French wikipedia wikipedians' researches there is another surname, the patronymic Leroult de Laville.