The French painter Maurice Leloir, who was born in Paris in the middle of the 19th century, was one of the most important artists of his time. He was not only a famous watercolour painter, but also an illustrator, document writer, art printer, writer and art collector. Leloir belonged to a famous French dynasty of painters. His social status was so high that the writer Guy de Maupassant dedicated the novella "Idyll" to him and the director Douglas Fairbanks invited him to Hollywood to work with him on his silent movie "The Iron Mask".
As the son of the painter Auguste Leloir and the watercolourist Héloïse Suzanne Leloir, née Colin, Maurice came into contact with painting at an early age. With his grandfather Alexandre-Marie Colin , his father Auguste Leloir and his mother Suzanne Leloir, there was no lack of role models for him. Eventually his father became his teacher and Auguste Leloir succeeded in making a name for himself with photorealistic works of art in watercolor technique. In keeping with the fashion and taste of his time, Maurice Leloir devoted himself mainly to the historicist genre with his paintings. A frequent motif is the lustful life during the reign of King Louis XV. Leloir's pictures shine through the detailed reproduction of persons, costumes and backgrounds. These include streets, pavilions, gardens, ships and cannons. In contrast to oil painting, small mistakes cannot be whitewashed in watercolour painting, the more admirable the precision and artistic quality of Leloir's works, which is also visible in the masterly depiction of movements and facial expressions in the respective scenes. Leloir also distinguished himself as a landscape painter and creator of several oil paintings, which were later stolen from the Fournaise Museum in Chatou.
After Maurice Leloir first exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français in the annual art exhibition of the French professional association of visual artists, he became the secretary of the salon. He married Céline Bourdier and had a little daughter. Like himself, his daughter, who, like his mother, was called Suzanne, also learned watercolour painting at an early age. Mauris Leloir's work "The little Watercolourist" Suzanne married Philippe Savari, the son of the writer Pauline Savari, who died in the First World War. In the following period Suzanne Leloire followed in the footsteps of her famous father and became a well-known watercolourist. Besides his daughter, Maurice Leloire had other students. He taught them at the École de Crozant Design School, an artists' association that included Claude Monet, Armand Guillaum and Jules Dupré. Together with his students, Maurice Leloire illustrated numerous books that were highly appreciated by bibliophiles. Among the children's books that Leloir personally illustrated was Richelieu by Théodore Cahu. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leloir was the founding president of the Society for Costume History and donated fashion prints from his family's private collection. This included his brother Alexandre-Louis Leloir, who completed the Leloire dynasty and, like Maurice, was dedicated to painting and illustration.
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.jpg "War of the Spanish Succession: the last charge of the French cavalry at the Battle of Malplaquet (Belgium) on September 11 by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "Exiled to the Castle of Blois by His Son Louis XIII, Marie de Medicis and Her Suite Left Paris in 1617 by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "Journee des Barricades, Mathieu Mole a la Croix du Trahoir by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "January - La Chanson du Mois by JĂ©rĂ´me Doucet, Illustration by Maurice Leloir, Edited by Reims 1904, L. Michaud by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "King Louis XIV Visiting the Works at Versailles, Le Bosquet De La Colonnade by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "The Morning Bath, Illustration of Elegant Parisian Life in the Second Half of the 18th Century by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "The rise of King Louis XIV known as the Sun King by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "Mlle de Montpensier, at the Bastille, Commanding the Firing of Cannon on the Army of King Louis XIV by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "History of France: Journee des Dupes: Cardinal de Richelieu by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "The Fire of the castle of Heidelberg bombed by the French forces of General Ezechiel du Mas, Count of Melac during the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and 1693. Chromotypography in Le Roy Soleil (Louis XIV) by Gustave Toutwelve, Illu by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "The Solar Eclipse, King Louis XIV and the Women of the Court on the Terrace of the Chateau of Marly by Maurice Leloir")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-992192).jpg "Illustration for Book VI of Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "April “La Chanson du mois” by Jérôme Doucet, illustration - Maurice Leloir, ed. Reims 1904. L. Michaud by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "The End of the Century and the Beginning of the Century, allegorical fan by Maurice Leloir")
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_known_as_the_Grand_Conde_(1621-_-_(MeisterDrucke-920952).jpg "Prince Louis II of Bourbon Conde, known as the Grand Conde, Duke of Enghien greeting the corpse of the Count of Fontaine at the Battle of Rocroi against the Spaniards, May 19 by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "Grand Carrousel des Tuileries, Course de Tetes par le Roi Empereur des Romains by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "French king Louis XIV in his castle of Vaux Le Visomte by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "History of France: Episode of the Siege of La Rochelle by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "Richelieu Playing with His Pet Cats by Maurice Leloir")
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.jpg "Bombardment and fire of the city of Algiers in 1682: Abraham Marquis Duquesne (between 1604 and 1610-88), an officer of the French navy, looks from his ship the effect produced by the bombs galiotes. Chromotypography in Le Roy Soleil (Louis XIV) by Gu by Maurice Leloir")
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