Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux

Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux (27 March 1770^[1] - 23 July 1826) was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied (in 1787) under David.

Her mother, Marguerite-Marie Lombard, was from Toulouse and her father, René Laville-Leroux was from Brittany. She sometimes exhibited with her sister Marie-Guillemine,^[2] as in the exhibition at la place Dauphine in 1786 where she displayed Dame en satin blanc, garnie de marte; and in 1788, Artémise serre sur son cœur l'urne contenant les cendres de Mausole; and in 1789, Une Vestale infidèle. In 1791, she exhibited Artémise in the Salon de l'Académie.

In 1794, she married baron Dominique Larrey.^[3]

References

• Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1967, page 244, note 1 (not seen)
• Astrid Reuter, Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, Gestaltungsraüme einer Künstlerin um 1800 (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2002), pp. 109–111

Notes

1. The date 1770 is given by Astrid Reuter, page 109.
2. And with Henriette, born in 1772.
3. According to some sources there is another surname, the patronymic Leroult de Laville.