Marianne Loir

Her brother, Alexis III Loir (1712–1785), was a renowned sculptor.

She studied under Jean François de Troy (1679–1752), 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 died in Paris, 11 May 1783[2] Works include: Drawings, watercolors Paintings Citations Sources

Portrait of a woman in a red dress with a black muff
Portrait de Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet c. 1748
Portrait of Emilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) – print by Rémi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux (c.1748–1823) After Marianne Loir
Portrait presumed to be of Mme Geoffrin , salonnière, National Museum of Women in the Arts , Washington, DC