Spouse(s) Céline Bourdier, | ||
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Born 1 November 1853 Paris Died 7 October 1940, Paris, France Books ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace… Parents Héloïse Colin, Jean-Baptiste Leloir Similar Georges G Toudouze, Alexandre Dumas, Edwin Blashfield, William Cameron Menzies | ||
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Maurice Leloir (1 November 1853 – 7 October 1940) was a French illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector.
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Maurice leloir
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.