Marie Loiseau (1860 - ?) - Portrait of a worldly woman

Marie Madeleine Amélie LOISEAU, born DUMONT
(Paris, 1860 - ?)

Portrait of a worldly woman

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
117 x 89 cm
1881

Exhibition: Salon de Pontoise of 1881 or 1882 under number 292

Marie Madeleine Amélie Dumont was born in Paris on January 23, 1860. She married on June 10, 1883 in Paris Mr. François Paul Raoul Loiseau, lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeal. Three children were born from this union, two girls and a boy.

Marie Loiseau was a student of Mademoiselle Espérance Langlois (active between 1860 and 1890) and Pierre Dupuis (1833-1915).
The artist was present at the Paris Salon:
- under her maiden name in 1880 and 1882 with a genre scene then a portrait,
- under her married name in 1884 and 1885 each time with a portrait.

Our painting bears on the reverse the label of the Salon de Pontoise where it was exhibited under number 292. Unfortunately, the label is barely legible and cannot guarantee the exact exhibition date (probably 1881 or 1882), nor reveal the identity of the model.