Armand Laroche (1826 – 1903), also known as Amand Laroche, was a French painter, who specialized in portraits and genre painting.
Biography
Born in
Saint-Cyr-l'École
Saint-Cyr-l'École () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
It used to host the training school for officers of the French army, the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM), which w ...
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Seine-et-Oise
Seine-et-Oise () was the former department of France encompassing the western, northern and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris.École des beaux-arts de Versailles and
École des beaux-arts de Paris
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école
A ''grande école'' () is a specialised university that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. The grandes écoles ...
Michel Martin Drolling
Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a neoclassic French painter, painter of history and portraitist.
Biography
He was born in Paris. There, he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Dr ...
Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings fro ...
*''Portrait of a Young Woman'' (1872)
*''Blue Bird'', featured at the Salon in 1882
*''Portrait of L-F Schützenberger'' (1884)
*''Le Réveil'', featured at the Salon in 1886
*''Portrait of M. Lapostolet'', featured at the Salon in 1887
*''Portrait of Melle Lainé, Artist of the Odeon'', featured at the salon in 1888
*''La Rosée'', featured at the Salon in 1889
*''Baigneuse'', featured at the Salon in 1892
*''Female Nude by Pond With Water Lilies''
*''Diana Bathing With the Nymphs''
Gallery
File:Armand Laroche (1826-1903), Nude in a landscape.jpg, ''Female nude by pond with water lilies''
File:Armand Laroche (1826-1903), portrait de de jeune femme.jpg, ''Portrait of young woman'' (1872)
File:Armand Laroche (1826-1903), portrait of Louis-Frederic Schützenberger..JPG, ''Portrait of L.-F. Schützenberger'' (1884)
File:Laroche, Armand (1826-1903), Diana bathing with the nymphs.jpg, ''Diana Bathing with the Nymphs''
References
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Bénézit
The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers created ...
Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings fro ...