Héloïse- Susanne Leloir-colin (1820 - 1873) A Pair Of Family Portraits Of Children

A fine pair of family portraits of children were executed ca. in the 1850s by Héloïse Susanne Colin, a well-listed French genre painter of miniatures and watercolourist, in marrige Leloir (1820 - Paris - 1873). She was the daughter of history painter Alexandre-Marie Colin and the mother of 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 ancient to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999.
Inscription: each signed lower left, twice signed on the original mat.
Technique: old watercolors passe-partout and framed on paper.
Measurements: each image 21 x 16 cm, matted and framed 31 x 26 cm.
Condition: very good.