Marianne Loir

1715 – 1769

Active in: France
Alternate names: Marie-Anne Loir

Biography

Marianne Loir was born in Paris in 1715. Both her father and grandfather were artists, as was her brother, Alexis III Loir. She trained with Jean François de Troy, the director of the French Academy in Rome, and was in resident there from 1738 to 1746. She was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1762.

Selected Works

A young person with light skin, gray hair curled over the ears, and dark eyes stands with one arm resting on a basket of flowers, the other holding a rake diagonally in front of their body. The person wears a bright red jacket and red pants, and the jack is open to expose the white shirt beneath. On their head is a straw-colored hat with a flower on the brim.

Marianne Loir, Portrait of Antoine-Vincent-Louis-Barbe Duplas, ca. 1763. Oil on canvas, 75 x 59 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours

A woman with very light skin, very pink cheeks, and long dark hair that is gray at the roots is seated at a table, looking out at the viewer. She wears a royal blue dress with brown or black fur trim and white lace at the ends of the sleeves, a short choker-like necklace around her neck, and holds a flower in one hand. In her other hand, she holds what may be a pen or pencil.

Marianne Loir, Portrait of Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet, n.d. Oil on canvas, 118 x 96 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux

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Sister of
Alexis Loir III

Bibliography

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Faroult, Guillaume. “‘La Villeuse’ par Marie-Anne Loir au musée de Riom: fortune d’une iconographie savoyarde, entre peinture et littérature au XVIIIe siècle.” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français (2004): 241–56.

Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel. Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.

Oxford Art Online. “Loir, Marianne.” October 31, 2011. https://doi-org.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00111140.

RKD. “Marianne Loir.” https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/50649.

Salmon, Xavier. “Pierre Gobert et Marianne Loir.” Dossier de l’Art 62, no. 2 (1999): 56–61.

Sutherland Harris, Ann and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists, 1550–1950. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.

Theime, Ulrich and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: Seemann, 1907–50.