Luigi Loir

Training under Jean Pastelot is recorded. Edmond Leroy, Felix Courché and Étienne Bouillé are recorded as having studied under Luigi Loir. The recorded working language is English and French. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Work by Luigi Loir is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina and Musée Carnavalet. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Birth Name — Luigi Aloys-François-Joseph Loir • Born — 22 December 1845 • Birthplace — Goritz, Austrian Empire • Died — 9 February 1916 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Painter Lithographer

Luigi Loir was born in Goritz, Austria. He was the son of Tancrède Loir François and Thérèse Leban, his wife, respectively valet and housekeeper of the French royal family in exile in Austria. Installed in the duchy of Parma in 1847, Luigi Loir studied at the school of Fine Arts of Parma in 1853. His first known painting is Paysage à Villiers-sur Seine (1865), painted two years after his return to Paris. He was primarily a landscape painter. He also became known for his ceiling paintings and worked with Jean Pastelot (1820–1870). He realized some drawings for the biscuits brand LU and participated in the battles of Le Bourget during the Franco-Prussian War. Loir was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1898. He died in Paris in 1916.

• 1865: Paysages de Parme; Vue de Rome; Vue de Dieppe (gouaches). • 1879: médaille de troisième classe. • Salon des artistes français: • 1886: médaille de seconde classe; • 1889: médaille d'or.

• Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes: Sur le quais de Paris, Francia, Goritz, 1845 – Francia, París, 1916

• Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Le Point-du-jour, Auteuil, 1883

• Prague, National Gallery: Le Métropolitain, 1899.

• London, Connaught Brown: Quai Bourbon, s.d.

• Bar-le-Duc, Musée Barrois: Avant l'embarquement, effet crépusculaire, 1893. • Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts. • Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée: Félicia Mallet in L'Enfant prodigue, chromolithography. • Paris: • Hôtel de ville de Paris: • Les Préparatifs de la fête foraine, salle d'honneur du conseil municipal; • La Rue de la Pitié vue du Val de Grâce, salon des sciences. • Musée Carnavalet: Porte Maillot, effet de neige, la nuit, oil on canvas. • Musée d'Orsay. • Petit Palais: Le Marché à la ferraille. • Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts.

• Illustration — Le Métropolitain (1899), National Gallery in Prague • Illustration — Avant l'embarquement, effet crépusculaire (1893), Bar-le-Duc, Musée Barrois • Illustration — L'Avenue de Neuilly on a Winter Day (1874), Minneapolis Institute of Art • Illustration — Bond of the company B. Sirven, issued 14. May 1901; illustrated by Luigi Loir

The authorities additionally record the headings Luigi Loir, Aloys Francois Joseph Loir, Aloys François Joseph Loir, Loir and l. loir. His recorded languages were English and French.

Luigi Loir is recorded as lithographer, painter, illustrator and scenographer.