Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux Explained

Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux
Birth Date:	27 March 1770
Death Place:	Bièvres, France
Nationality:	French
Field:	Painting

Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (27 March 1770^[1] – 23 July 1826) was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied (in 1787) under David.

Her mother, Marguerite-Marie Lombard, was from Toulouse and her father, René Laville-Leroux was from Brittany. She sometimes exhibited with her sister Marie-Guillemine, and with Henriette, born in 1772. as in the exhibition at la place Dauphine in 1786 where she displayed Dame en satin blanc, garnie de marte; and in 1788, Artémise serre sur son cœur l'urne contenant les cendres de Mausole; and in 1789, Une Vestale infidèle. In 1791, she exhibited Artémise in the Salon de l'Académie.

In 1794 she married Dominique Larrey.

References

• Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1967, page 244, note 1 (not seen)
• Astrid Reuter, Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, Gestaltungsraüme einer Künstlerin um 1800 (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2002), pp. 109–111

Notes and References

1. The date 1770 is given by Astrid Reuter, page 109.