Laura Leroux-Revault

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Laura Leroux-Revault
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Born
Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux

14 September 1872
DiedJune 1936
Signature
Laura Leroux-Revault - signature.jpg

Laura Leroux-Revault (née Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux) (14 September 1872 – June 1936) was a French artist and painter, trained at the Académie Julian art school in Paris. Her first teacher was her father, the painter Louis Hector Leroux.

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Early life

Jean-Jacques Henner -Clelia Leroux (mother) Henner--Clelia Leroux.jpg
Jean-Jacques Henner -Clelia Leroux (mother)

Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux was born on 14 September 1872 at Dun-sur-Meuse. She was the daughter of Giuditta Clelia Casali and Louis Hector Leroux (1829–1900), a successful French painter. [1]

Jean-Jacques Henner - Hector Leroux (father) Henner--Hector Leroux.jpg
Jean-Jacques Henner - Hector Leroux (father)

Her parents met when her maternal grandfather was the doctor who treated her father for wounds he received when serving in the Francs-tireurs de la Seine in the Battle of Buzenval, where his leg was broken by a projectile. [2] She had a younger brother Nicholas. Their father painted a portrait of the siblings in 1888.

Louis Hector Leroux--Frere et Soeur--1888 Nicholas (left) and Laura Leroux (right) Louis Hector Leroux--Frere et Soeur--1888--color image.jpg
Louis Hector Leroux--Frère et Soeur--1888 Nicholas (left) and Laura Leroux (right)

Career

Laura Leroux trained at the Académie Julian art school in Paris. Initially a pupil of her father, she then trained under Jules Lefebvre and in Jean-Jacques Henner's studio. The two artists were friends of her father. [3]

Exhibitions

Leroux-Revault exhibited works with the Société des Artistes Français.

Selected known works

Portraits of Leroux-Revault by other artists

Personal life

In 1898, she married Louis Revault (1866–1950), a French industrialist and chocolate manufacturer who later became a député in Paris. [14] [15] She became known as Laura Leroux-Revault.

Laura Leroux-Revault died in June 1936 in Auzéville in Argonne. [16]

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