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 a goldsmith. She studied under Jean François de Troy (1679-1752), director of the French Academy in Rome, where Marianne stayed between 1738 and 1746. She left Paris in 1765 and moved to Provence. She became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1762, and seems to have stayed at Pau and Toulouse. Her brother, Alexis Loir (1712-1785), was a renowned sculptor. In 1763 she was in Paris, where she completed a portrait of the young Antoine Duplas on 1 September. 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