User:Brownie29/Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Work

 * Lemoine's most famous painting Interior of the Atelier of a Woman Painter was originally identified to be Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun however there is no evidence that Vigée-Le Brun was ever Lemoine's Teacher, the painting is most likely some sort of tribute to her.

Personal Life

 * She was the eldest of four sisters
 * her teacher was 10 years older than her
 * At the time of her death, she left only 10 Francs in cash and personal clothing and linen valued at 181 Frances and 50 centimes . Which amounts to only $40.66 U.S dollars cash and $4,290.68 for the clothing and linen in today's currency.
 * Her first cousin was painter Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet through her mothers side

Career

 * She set up a studio in Paris in 1774
 * first solo exhibition is held at the Salon de la Correspondence in Paris in 1779
 * 5 years after the Parisian salon allows women to participate, Marie-Victoire Lemoine exhibits there for the first time..
 * most active in the art community during the late 1780's and the early 1790's.
 * she signed her paintings "M. Vic Lemoine"
 * exhibited somewhat 20 paintings in the salon de la Correspondence in 1779 and 1785
 * Her work consisted primarily of miniatures and genre and portrait oils.
 * The first painting Lemoine exhibited was a portrait (Untraced) of the princesse de Lamballe