Auguste LELOIR (1809-1892) Portrait of a civil servant or a - Lot 197

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Auguste LELOIR (1809-1892) Portrait of a civil servant or a - Lot 197
Auguste LELOIR (1809-1892) Portrait of a civil servant or a member of the prefectoral corps in uniform, Knight of the Legion of Honour Oil on canvas signed and dated 1835 lower right. 82 x 65.5 cm. Gilt frame (chips). Auguste Leloir (1809-1892) Auguste Leloir was the husband of the watercolourist Héloïse Colin (1820-1874), the father of the painter AlexandreLouis Leloir and the illustrator Maurice Leloir, and the uncle of Édouard Toudouze. Crowned with a 3rd Grand Prix de Rome in 1835, Auguste Leloir began exhibiting at the Salon the same year (a portrait of Madame C...) and was rewarded twice, obtaining a 3rd class medal at the 1839 Salon, then a 2nd class medal at the 1841 Salon for his painting representing Homer, bought by the State and deposited in the Louvre Museum. He produced a work of history painter, author of paintings with religious and mythological subjects. He also practiced the art of portraiture, as here.
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