Marianne Loir or Marie-Anne Loir was a French painter who specialized in portraits.
Biography
Marianne Loir was born in Paris around 1715, daughter of the goldsmith Alexis II Loir and granddaughter of Nicolas Loir. Her brother, Alexis III Loir, was a renowned sculptor. She studied under Jean François de Troy, director of the French Academy in Rome, where Marianne stayed between 1738 and 1746. She became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1762, and seems to have stayed at Pau for a time in the 1720s and Toulouse. In 1763 she was in Paris, where she completed a portrait of the young Antoine Duplas on 1 September. She left Paris in 1765 and moved to Provence. She died sometime in 1769. She left ten paintings signed and dated between 1745 and 1769.
Works
Works include: Drawings, watercolors
N – D – Portrait de jeune femme Dessin, aquarelle, pastel ; Dim; H:54,5 cm X L:44 cm
1760 c Portrait du Chevalier de Fleury Commandeur de l'Ordre de Malte, commandant de la place de Montlouis à Castries, HST; S; Dim; H:78,5cm X L:63,1cm
1761 – Portrait d'homme au livre HST; SD au revers de la toile Âgé de 54 ans et peint par Melle Loir en Avril 1761; Dim; H:90,5cm X L:73cm
1763 – Portrait de Antoine Vincent Louis Barbe Duplas âgé de 9 ans peint le 1er sept. 1763, HST; SD; Dim; 75cm X L: 59cm
1763 – Portrait présumé de Marion de Mersan « HST; Dim; H: X L:
N – D – L'Enfant au râteau HST; S; Dim; H:75 cm X L:59 cm
N – D – Portrait de J. N. Regnault HST; S; Dim; H: X L:
N – D – Portrait d'une femme tenant une partition de musique HST; Dim; H:80,5 cm X L:64,5 cm
N – D – Portrait présumé de Madame de Séran HST; Dim; H:80 cm X L:64 cm
N – D – Portrait d'un gentilhomme » HST; Dim; H: X L:
N – D – Portrait de la Comtesse de la Ferrière HST; Dim; H:101cm X L:81cm
N – D – Bildnis des Gabriel Nicolas Silvain de Montaignac d'Estan – san im alter von zehn jahren HST; S; Dim; H:72,5cm X L: 60cm
N – D – Portrait d'homme assis à son bureau HST; Dim; H:81cm X L:65cm
N – D – Portrait présumé de Monsieur de la Blotterie HST; S; Dim; H:100cm X L:80cm
N – D – Portrait d'un homme en robe de bure HST; Dim; H:117cm X L:89cm,
N – D – Portrait d'un violiste HST; Dim; H: X L:
N – D – Portrait d'une femme assise en robe rouge HST; Dim; H:81,3cm X L:66cm
N – D – Portrait d'une fillette tenant une guirlande de fleurs " HST; Dim; H: X L:
Titles, distinctions
1762 – Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Marseille
