Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Marie-Victoire Lemoine (French: [ma.ʁi vik.twaʁ lə.mwan]; 1754 – 2 December 1820) was a French classicist painter.

Marie-Victoire Lemoine
Marie Victoire Lemoine, Portrait of the Artist
ca. 1780/1790
Born1754 (1754)
Paris, France
Died2 December 1820(1820-12-02) (aged 65–66)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting

Life

Born in Paris, Marie-Victoire Lemoine was the eldest daughter of Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle. Her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou, also became painters. However, unlike her sisters, she remained unmarried and became one of the few women in contemporary art that made a living through painting.

She was a student of François-Guillaume Ménageot in the early 1770s, with whom she lived and worked in a house acquired by the art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, next to the studio of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755–1842), France's leading woman painter. From 1779, Marie-Victoire Lemoine lived in her parents' home until she moved in with her sister Marie-Elisabeth, where she remained even after her sister's death. She died six years after her last exhibition, aged sixty-six.

Work

Marie-Victoire Lemoine mainly painted portraits, miniatures, and genre scenes. She took part in numerous Salons,[1] for example Pahin de la Blancherie's Salon de Correspondance in 1779,[2] where she exhibited a portrait of the Princess Lamballe (57 x 45 cm). Following this salon, she continued to display her works of art to the public in the salons of 1796, 1798, 1799, 1802, 1804 and 1814.

References
  1. "Marie Victoire Lemoine | The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  2. Auricchio, Laura (2002-01-01). "Pahin de la Blancherie's Commercial Cabinet of Curiosity (1779–87)". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 36 (1): 47–61. doi:10.1353/ecs.2002.0050. JSTOR 30053338. S2CID 162042216.
  1. www.metmuseum.org https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436875. Retrieved 2020-06-16. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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