Marie victoire lemoine biography of george

French painter .

Marie victoire lemoine biography of george

Born in France in 1754; died in 1820; never married; no children.

Art scholars have yet to devote any meaningful research to the life and work of French painter Marie Victoire Lemoine, who was born in 1754. What little is known is that she studied with F.G.

Ménageot (1744–1816), an academic history painter and portraitist who established a studio in Paris in 1774, and that she exhibited some 20 paintings in the Salon de la Correspondance in 1779 and 1785, and in the official Academy Salon between 1796 and 1814.

Of the works attributed to her, which include portraits, miniatures, and genre pictures of children, only three self-portraits can be located. Her paintings of children, described variously as "young girl holding a dove," "small boy playing a violin," and "young girl cutting lilac," were apparently highly sentimental and may have been influenced by the work of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) who was known for his mo