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Marie-Victoire Lemoine
French artist (1754–1820)
Marie-Victoire Lemoine | |
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Marie Victoire Lemoine, Portrait of the Artist, c. 1780–1790 | |
| Born | 1754 (1754) Paris, France |
| Died | 2 December 1820(1820-12-02) (aged 65–66) Paris, France |
| Known for | Painting |
Marie-Victoire Lemoine (French:[ma.ʁivik.twaʁlə.mwan]; 1754 – 2 December 1820) was a French classicist painter.
Life
Born in Paris, Marie-Victoire Lemoine was the eldest daughter of four sisters to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle.[1] Her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou, also became painters.
She was first cousins with Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet through her mother's side.[1] Unlike her sisters, she remained unmarried and became one of the few women in contemporary art that made a living through painting.
She was a student of François-Guillaume Ménageot in the early 1770s, with whom she lived and worked in a house acquired