Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Studio of an artist, probably Mme. Vigée-Lebrun and a student, painted in 1796 by Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Marie-Victoire Lemoine (* 1754 in Paris ; † December 2, 1820 in Paris) was a French classicist painter .

Life

Marie-Victoire Lemoine was born in Paris in 1754 as the eldest daughter of Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle. Her younger sisters Marie-Denise Lemoine (known as Nisa Villers) and Marie-Elisabeth Lemoine-Gabiou were also artists. Unlike her sisters, she remained unmarried and was one of the few women in contemporary art who made a living from painting. At the beginning of the 1770s she is said to have lived and worked with academician François Ménageot in a house acquired from the art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun , right next to Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's studio .

From 1779 she lived again in her parents' house until she moved in with her sister Marie-Elisabeth. There she remained, even after her sister's death. Marie-Victoire Lemoine mainly painted portraits, miniatures and genre scenes, which she exhibited from 1779, including the portrait of Princess Lamballe in the format 57 × 45 cm, in the Salon de la Correspondance . From then on she presented her works of art to the public for the salons of 1796, 1798, 1799, 1802, 1804 and 1814. Six years after her last exhibition, she died in Paris at the age of 66.

literature

• Joseph Baillio: Vie et Oeuvre de Marie-Victoire Lemoine . In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts . avril 1996, CXXXVIII, pp. 125-164.
• Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin: Women Artists 1550–1950 . Knopf, New York 1977, pp. 188-189; Femmes peintres 1550-1950 . Des Femmes, Paris 1981.
• Mary O'Neill: Les Peintures de l'École Française des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles . Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orleans, thèse de Doctorat de Troisième Cycle sous la direction de J. Thuillier, l'Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, le 6 may 1980.
• Margaret Oppenheimer: Nisa Villers, nee Lemoine (1774-1821) . In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts . avril 1996, CXXXVIII, pp. 167-80.