Name: MARIANNE LOIR (PARIS C. 1715-1769)
Brand: Portrait of Nicholas Anne de Lisle, half-length, with a rifle and hunting dog
Price: 16000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

MARIANNE LOIR (PARIS C. 1715-1769)
Portrait of Nicholas Anne de Lisle, half-length, with a rifle and hunting dog
oil on canvas
31³⁄₄ x 25¹⁄₂ in. (80.7 x 64.7 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 213, as 'French School, 18th century.'
with Leger Galleries, London (according to a label on the reverse).

Apollo, CXXVII, June 1988, p. 78, illustrated.

London, Grosvenor House, The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 9-18 June 1988.

Please note the additional cataloging for this lot:

PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1988, lot 213, as 'French School, 18th century.'
with Leger Galleries, London (according to a label on the reverse).

LITERATURE:
Apollo, CXXVII, June 1988, p. 78, illustrated.

EXHIBITIED:
London, Grosvenor House, The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 9-18 June 1988.

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Marianne Loir was the daughter of the goldsmith Alexis II Loir and granddaughter of the history painter and engraver Nicolas-Pierre Loir. She studied under both Hubert Drouais and Jean François de Troy, the latter of whom was director of the French Academy in Rome, where she was resident between 1738 and 1746. Loir may have found it difficult to compete for portrait commissions in Paris and is recorded as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1762. Her delicately rendered portraits with refined color schemes found particular appeal among the French nobility and intellectual elite.