Quick Facts
Intro | French painter and writer | ||
Was | Painter Illustrator | ||
From | France | ||
Field | Arts Creativity | ||
Gender | male | ||
Birth | 1 November 1853, Paris, Île-de-France, France | ||
Death | 7 October 1940, Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 86 years) | ||
Star sign | Scorpio | ||
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Biography
Maurice Leloir (1 November 1853 – 7 October 1940) was a French illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector.
Biography
The son and pupil of painter Auguste Leloir
and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin, Maurice Leloir first exhibited at Salon des artistes français, of which he became the secretary. With many other painters, he was a member of the Crozant School in the valleys of Creuse.
Around the 1890s, Maurice Leloir and his students flooded the picture book market, inspired by photographs representing accurately costumes and attitudes of the past, much appreciated by bibliophiles. A prolific illustrator of books, especially for children, such as the Richelieu by Theodore Cahu
, of magazines and fans, he founded the "Société d'histoire du costume" in 1907.His brother, Alexandre-Louis Leloir, also an illustrator, was a well known painter. In 1884, Guy de Maupassant dedicated him the short story Idylle.
Works
Maurice Leloir realized some paintings including La Maison Fournaise (oil on wood) exposed in the musée Fournaise of the city of Chatou, but unfortunately stolen in 1999.
Publications
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Illustrations de Maurice Leloir), Paul et Virginie, Paris, Librairie artistique, H. Launette et Cie 1888, 29 × 28cm, 208 p.
- Alexandre Dumas (121 and 128 drawings by Maurice Leloir engraved on wood by Jules Huyot), Les Trois Mousquetaires, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1894, 30 × 21 cm, 2 volumes de 502 et 473 p.
- Une femme de qualité au siècle passé, Paris, 1778, Paris : J. Boussod, Manzi, Joyant et Cie, 1899
- Alexandre Dumas (113 and 129 drawings by Maurice Leloir engraved on wood by Jules Huyot), La dame de Monsoreau, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1903, 30 × 21cm, 2 volumes de 499 et 488 p.
- Gustave Toudouze (ill. Maurice Leloir), Le Roy soleil, Paris, Boivin & Cie, 1904 (repr. 1908, 1917, 1931) (1st ed. 1904), 92 p., 37,2 × 30,3 cm Relié pleine percaline bleue, premier plat estampé d'un décor polychrome représentant le Roy soleil, titre estampé doré en long au dos
- Théodore Cahu (ill. Maurice Leloir), Richelieu, Paris, Combet et Cie, 1904 (1st ed. 1901), 84 p., 37,4 × 30,5 cm Relié pleine percaline vert lierre, premier plat estampé d'un décor polychrome représentant Richelieu
- Cinq mois à Hollywood avec Douglas Fairbanks, Paris : J. Peyronnet et Cie, 1929
- Histoire du costume de l'Antiquité à 1914, t. VIII-XII, work published under the direction of Maurice Leloir, preface by Henri Lavedan, Paris : Ernst, 1933-1949
- Dictionnaire du costume et de ses accessoires, des armes et des étoffes : des origines à nos jours, Paris : Gründ, 1950
- Les confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Maurice Leloir illustre (eaux-fortes gravées par Champollion, Teyssonieres, Milius, Ruet, etc.) une superbe édition (préfacée par Jules Claretie) en 2 volumes in-4° (sur vélin de luxe plus 48 vol. de grand luxe sur Japon) publiée par la librairie artistique H. Launette, en 1889 ; ces illustrations sont reprises dans une nouvelle édition à la librairie Jules Tallandier, vers 1925 (3 volumes in-8° reliés Collection « Les chefs d'œuvre de l'esprit »).
- Le Roy soleil
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Nicolas Fouquet receiving the King at Vaux
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Molière's last performance
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Premier plat du livre
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Battle of Malplaquet
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Louis XV blessed by Louis XIV dying
- La dame de Monsoreau
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Le roi très chrétien Henri III et ses amis
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A rider fall
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House
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Passage de la Seine au bac de Nesle.
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Louise de Lorraine, Queen of France
