Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud
Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud (1824 – 1885) was a Swiss painter active in France.
Also recorded as Louise Émilie Leleux · Louise Emilie Giraud
Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud
Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud · Joconde database: entry 04370014662 · Public domain
- Full name
- Louise Émilie Giraud.
- Born
- 1824. · Geneva.
- Died
- 1885. · Paris.
- Nationality
- Switzerland.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Languages
- French.
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• Name — Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud • Born — 25 March 1824 • Birthplace — Geneva • Died — 6 May 1885 • Place of death — Paris Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud (1824 – 1885) was a Swiss painter active in France.
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• Illustration — Private and Confidential, 1880 Leleux-Giraud was born in Geneva and grew up in Dardagny, a village in the rural part of the canton of Geneva near the French border, where her parents owned a small château. In Geneva she became a pupil of Albert Lugardon there. She then attended the school of Leon Cogniet in Paris. She married the French painter Armand Leleux and showed numerous paintings at the Paris Salon. Her work Private and Confidential was included in the book Women Painters of the World. Leleux-Giraud and Leleux died within a few weeks in Paris. Both are buried at the cemetery of Malval in Dardagny, where the couple spent much of their time together.
1905 print after page of Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London
Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud
Portrait painting of Swiss politician James Fazy (1794-1878) from the collections of the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Emilie Giraud-Leleux (1824 - 1885) · https: bge-geneve.ch/iconographie/oeuvre/0565
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