Laura Leroux-Revault | |
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Born | Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux 14 September 1872 |
Died | June 1936 |
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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.
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]
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.
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]
Leroux-Revault exhibited works with the Société des Artistes Français.
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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