Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Marie- Victoire Lemoine (* 1754 in Paris, † December 2, 1820 in Paris) was a French painter of classicism.

Life

Marie- Victoire Lemoine was born in 1754 as the eldest daughter of Charles Lemoine and Marie -Anne Rousselle in Paris. Her younger sisters Marie- Denise Lemoine (known as Nisa Villers ) and Marie -Elisabeth Lemoine Gabiou were also artists. Unlike her sisters, but she remained unmarried, thus earning himself the artwork of their livelihood. You should have the academician François Ménageot lived and worked the early 1770s in an acquired by the art dealer Jean -Baptiste- Pierre Lebrun house, right next to the studio by Elisabeth Vigee -Lebrun.

From 1779 she lived again in her parents' house until she moved to her sister Marie -Elisabeth. There they remained, even over her sister's death. Marie- Victoire Lemoine mainly painted portraits, miniatures as well as genre scenes, which they then from 1779 exhibited among others, the portrait of Princess Lamballe in the format 57 x 45 cm in the Salon de la Correspondance. From then on, they led before their artwork to the public for each of the salons of 1796, 1798, 1799, 1802, 1804 and 1814. Six years after their last show she died at the age of 66 in Paris.