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Marianne Loir or Marie-Anne Loir (10 December 1705 – 11 May 1783) was a
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painter who specialized in portraits.


Biography

Marianne Loir was born in Paris, 10 December 1705, daughter of the goldsmith Alexis II Loir and granddaughter of
Nicolas Loir Nicolas Pierre Loir (1624, Paris Р1679, Paris), was a French painter and engraver of religious and historical allegories. Biography According to the RKD he was a pupil of S̩bastien Bourdon and Simon Vouet, who later became a follower of ...
. Her brother, Alexis III Loir (1712–1785), was a renowned sculptor. She studied under
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(1679–1752), director of the
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, where Marianne stayed between 1738 and 1746. She became a member of the
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in
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in 1762, and seems to have stayed at Pau for a time in the 1720s and
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. In 1763 she was in Paris, where she completed a portrait of the young Antoine Duplas on 1 September. She left Paris in 1765 and moved to
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. She died sometime in 1769. She left ten paintings, signed and dated between 1745 and 1769. She died in Paris, 11 May 1783


Works

Works include: Drawings, watercolors * N – D – ''Portrait de jeune femme'' Dessin, aquarelle, pastel (attribué); Dim; H:54,5 cm X L:44 cm (Vente France, 24 juin 1998) Paintings * 1737 – ''Portrait du Duc de Bourbon'' HST; S; Dim; H: X L: (notes dans Christine Kaiser; effigie payée entre 1737 et 1738) * 1740 c ''Portrait de Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet'' décédée en 1749 HST; Dim; H:118 cm X L:96 cm (
Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15t ...
, attribution en 1803 provient des collections royales française, n°inv: Bx E19 Bx M5848 restauré en 1969 et 1971 * 1740 – ''Portrait miniature de Emilie du Châtelet '' collection of Jane Birkenstock,
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, USA * 1740 c ''Portrait de Marie Charles Auguste Grimaldi (1722–1749), Comte de Matignon, frère du Prince de Monaco'' (Attributed) HST; Dim; H: X L: (Musée de
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n°accession BM354, Royaume-Uni) * 1750 c ''Portrait d'homme'' HST; Dim; H:80cm X L:64cm (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'
Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ...
à Washington DC USA, don de Wallace et Wilhelmina Holladay) * 1760 c ''Portrait du Chevalier de Fleury'' Commandeur de l'Ordre de Malte, commandant de la place de Montlouis à Castries, HST; S; Dim; H:78,5cm X L:63,1cm (classé MH le 5 déc. 2000 au château de Castries) * 1761 – ''Portrait d'homme au livre'' HST; SD au revers de la toile Âgé de 54 ans et peint par Melle Loir en Avril 1761; Dim; H:90,5cm X L:73cm (vente Pescheteau Badin) * 1763 – ''Portrait de Antoine Vincent Louis Barbe Duplas'' âgé de 9 ans peint le 1er sept. 1763, HST; SD; Dim; 75cm X L: 59cm (
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (English: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours) is located in the bishop's former palace, near the Tours Cathedral, cathedral St. Gatien, where it has been since 1910. It displays rich and varied collections, including t ...
n°inv: 52.1.8.) * 1763 – ''Portrait présumé de Marion de Mersan'' « HST; Dim; H: X L: (connu par base Joconde fiche du ''Portrait d'homme'') * N – D – ''L'Enfant au râteau'' HST; S; Dim; H:75 cm X L:59 cm (
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (English: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours) is located in the bishop's former palace, near the Tours Cathedral, cathedral St. Gatien, where it has been since 1910. It displays rich and varied collections, including t ...
) * N – D – ''Portrait de J. N. Regnault'' HST; S; Dim; H: X L: (connu d'après la gravure de François Robert Ingouf, estampe des grands albums de gravures de Philippe d'Orléans conservés au Musée de
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) * N – D – ''Portrait d'une femme tenant une partition de musique'' (attribué) HST; Dim; H:80,5 cm X L:64,5 cm (lot n°18 vente France, 28 juin 2007) * N – D – ''Portrait présumé de Madame de Séran'' HST; Dim; H:80 cm X L:64 cm (vente France, lot n°30, Daguerre) * N – D – ''Portrait d'un gentilhomme'' » HST; Dim; H: X L: (vente à Galliera le 3 déc. 1969, n° 68, connu par la fiche du ''Portrait d'homme'' de la base Joconde) * N – D – ''Portrait de la Comtesse de la Ferrière'' HST; Dim; H:101cm X L:81cm (Pillet, 5 avril 2009, lot n°50) * N – D – ''Bildnis des Gabriel Nicolas Silvain de Montaignac d'Estan – san im alter von zehn jahren'' HST; S; Dim; H:72,5cm X L: 60cm (Dorotheum, 23 juin 1992) * N – D – ''Portrait d'homme assis à son bureau '' HST; (attribué) Dim; H:81cm X L:65cm (vente Tajan Drouot 12 déc. 2005) * N – D – ''Portrait présumé de Monsieur de la Blotterie'' HST; S; Dim; H:100 cm X L:80cm (exposé par la galerie Frédérick Chanoit à Paris) * N – D – ''Portrait d'un homme en robe de bure'' HST; Dim; H:117cm X L:89cm, (Tajan, 21 juin 2005, lot n°64) * N – D – ''Portrait d'un violiste'' HST; Dim; H: X L: (réplique de l'Å“uvre de Louis Tocqué Florence Gétreau IRPMF) * N – D – ''Portrait d'une femme assise en robe rouge'' HST; Dim; H:81,3cm X L:66cm (New-York Rockefeller Plaza, vente 2175 le 4 juin 2009) * N – D – ''Portrait d'une fillette tenant une guirlande de fleurs'' " HST; Dim; H: X L: (Tajan 18 mars 2005, Drouot) * N – D – ''Portrait de jeune femme en vestale'' HST; Dim; H:92 cm X L:73,5 cm (Collection Strakovits, Budapest, Hungary)


Titles, distinctions

* 1762 – Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Marseille


Museums holding her work

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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (English: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours) is located in the bishop's former palace, near the Tours Cathedral, cathedral St. Gatien, where it has been since 1910. It displays rich and varied collections, including t ...
,
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: (''Portrait d'Antoine Duplas'') – (''L'Enfant au râteau'' ) *
Bowes Museum The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoît ...
, United Kingdom: (''Portrait d'un gentilhomme écrivant'' ) *
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ...
, Washington DC, USA: (''Portrait présumé de Madame Geoffrin'') *
Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in the Loiret department and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover European arts f ...
,
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: (''Portrait d'homme'' ) * Château de
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: (''Portrait de Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet'') * Collection de Jane Birkenstock, San Jose CA USA: (''Miniature de Emilie du Châtelet '') * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô,
Manche Manche (, ) is a coastal French département in Normandy, on the English Channel, which is known as ''La Manche'', literally "the sleeve", in French. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it one of the oldest art museums on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the US. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum becam ...
, Portland, Oregon, USA: (''Portrait of a Man'') * Collection Strakovits, Budapest, Hungary (''Portrait de jeune femme en vestale'')


References

Citations Sources * * * 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Loir, Marianne 1710s births 1769 deaths 18th-century French painters Painters from Paris French women painters 18th-century French women artists 18th-century women painters