"Pair Of Watercolors "second Empire Fashion, Children's Games" By Héloïseleloir-colin (1820-1873)"
Beautiful pair of family portraits of children were executed ca. in the 1850s by a good listed French figure, miniature and genre watercolorist Héloïse Susanne Colin, to marrige Leloir (1820 - Paris - 1873). She was the daughter of the historical painter Alexandre-Marie Colin and the mother of the painter-illustrator Maurice Leloir. Héloïse Colin married the painter Jean-Auguste Leloir in 1842.
Literature: E.Benezit "Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers", Gründ, 1999; Thieme / Becker "Lexicon of artists from antiquity to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999.
Inscription: each signed lower left, signed twice on the original master key.
Technique: old watercolors matted and framed on paper.
Dimensions: each image 21 x 16 cm, matted and framed 31 x 26 cm.