Marie-Victoire Lemoine - Artist Info

About Marie-Victoire Lemoine

  • Biography

    Marie Victoire Lemoine was born the eldest of four daughters to Charles Lemoine and his wife Marie Anne Rouselle. She studied under the history painter Francois Guillaume Ménageot (1744-1816), who rented an apartment in the hôtel de Lubert in the rue de Clery, in the same building as the art dealer Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun and his wife Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), who was to become the most celebrated female painter in France.

    Although it is unclear whether Lemoine studied formerly under Vigée Le Brun in her workshop, although this seems quite unlikely being just a year younger than Vigée Le Brun, it is probable the two female artists came into close contact with one another, and had very similar styles. ...

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