Laura Leroux-Revault Explained

Laura Leroux-Revault
Birth Name:	Maria Laura Desiderata Le Roux
Birth Date:	14 September 1872
Death Date:	June 1936

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.

Career

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]

Exhibitions

Leroux-Revault exhibited works with the Société des Artistes Français.

• 1892: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Fille de Roy (titre de l'inventaire), .^[4]
• 1894: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Anne et Jehanne, .^[5]
• 1896: Paris, Salon des artistes français: Jehanne Ire de Naples,, et L'Heure de l'attente, .^[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]}
• Nancy, musée des Beaux-Arts: Anne et Jehanne, 1894, oil on canvas.
• 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]

Portraits of Leroux-Revault by other artists

• Louis Hector Leroux, Portrait de Laura en vestale, Verdun, musée de la Princerie, inv. 81.1.261.^[10]
• Louis Hector Leroux, Portrait de femme [Laura Leroux], Verdun, musée de la Princerie, inv. 81.1.262.^[11]
• Jean-Jacques Henner, Portrait de Laura Leroux, vers 1898, Verdun, musée de la Princerie, inv. 81.1.79^[12]
• Jean-Jacques Henner, Portrait de Mademoiselle Laura Leroux, 1898, musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers (dépôt du musée d'Orsay), MBA 830 Dép.^[13]

Personal life

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.

References

1. Acte de naissance, 14 septembre 1872, Dun-sur-Meuse, Archives départementales de la Meuse (avec mention marginale de mariage).
2. 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.
3. Web site: ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research) . 2024-04-09 . www.getty.edu.
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5. Web site: Salon . Société des artistes français . 1894 . Catalogue illustré du Salon... / publié sous la direction de F.-G. Dumas . 2019-04-27 . Gallica . FR. .
6. Web site: Salon . Société des artistes français . 1896 . Catalogue illustré du Salon… / publié sous la direction de F.-G. Dumas . 2020-06-06 . Gallica . FR. .
7. Web site: POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine .
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9. Web site: Base Salons . 2024-04-09 . salons.musee-orsay.fr.
10. , page consultée le 23 août 2023.
11. , page consultée le 23 août 2023.
12. , page consultée le 23 août 2023.
13. Web site: Portrait de Laura Leroux . 2023-08-23 . Musées d'Angers. .
14. Acte de mariage, 4 août 1898, Paris, Archives de Paris (vue 23/31).
15. Web site: Visionneuse - Archives de Paris . 2024-04-02 . archives.paris.fr.