Héloïse Suzanne Colin (1819–1873), also known as Héloïse Leloir, was a

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

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during the

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Biography

Héloïse Colin was the eldest daughter of painter

Alexandre-Marie Colin Alexandre-Marie Colin (5 December 1798 – 21 November 1875) was a French painter of History painting, historical and Genre works, genre subjects. Biography Colin was born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioso ...

and Marie Joseph Juhel. She married Auguste Leloir with whom she had two sons: the illustrator

Maurice Leloir Maurice Leloir (1 November 1853 – 7 October 1940) was a French illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector. Biography Leloir was the son, and pupil, of painter and watercolorist Héloïse Colin, Héloïse Suzann ...

and the painter Alexandre-Louis Leloir. Colin exhibited her first drawings in the 1835 edition of the

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. She painted watercolors, miniatures, and illustrations for novels, such as ''

The Three Musketeers ''The Three Musketeers'' () is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in col ...

'' and ''

The Count of Monte Cristo ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' () is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, and published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers'' (184 ...

''. However, she and her sisters Anaïs Toudouze and Laure Noël were best known for their work as illustrators of Parisian fashion of the mid-nineteenth, such as in the famous fashion magazine

La Mode Illustrée ''La Mode Illustrée'', was a French fashion magazine, published between 1860 and 1937. Its subtitle was ''Journal de la famille''. The magazine was founded by Emmeline Raymond, headquartered in Paris and published by the Didot brothers. It was k ...

References

External links

Héloïse Colin
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Works by Héloïse Leloir-Colin
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Works by Hélöise Leloir
held by the

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19th-century French painters Fashion illustrators Painters from Paris 1819 births 1873 deaths 19th-century French illustrators {{Illustrator-stub