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.
Early life
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.
1896: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Jehanne Ire de Naples, No. 1242, et L'Heure de l'attente, No. 1243.[6]
Selected known works
Bar-le-Duc, Musée barrois: Fille de Roy [titre de l'inventaire], 1892, oil on canvas, stolen during the night of 20 or 21 August 1985, current location unknown.[7][4]
Verdun, musée de la Princerie: L'Attente ou L'Heure de l'attente, entre 1890 et 1903, oil on canvas.[8]
Jehanne Ire de Naples (
Joan I of Naples), painting exhibited in 1896 in the Paris' Salon des Artistes français (Salon of French Artists). Current location Philadelphia, offered for sale on eBay.[9]
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]
References
^Acte de naissance No. 19, 14 septembre 1872, Dun-sur-Meuse, Archives départementales de la Meuse (avec mention marginale de mariage).
^Gohel, Louis-Michel, et. al. Louis-Hector Leroux (Verdun 1829-Angers 1900). Peintures et esquisses, Musées de Bar-le-Duc et Verdun, Imprimerie du Barrois, January, 1988.