Marianne Loir or Marie-Anne Loir (1705-1783) was a French painter who specialised in portraits.
Marianne Loir was born in Paris on 10 December 1705, the daughter of the goldsmith Alexis II Loir and the granddaughter of Nicolas Loir. Her brother, Alexis III Loir (1712-1785), was a renowned sculptor.
She studied under Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752), director of the French Academy in Rome, where Marianne stayed between 1738 and 1746. She became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Marseille in 1762, and seems to have stayed at Pau for a time in the 1720s and Toulouse. In 1763, she was in Paris, where she completed a portrait of the young Antoine Duplas on 1 September. She left Paris in 1765 and moved to Provence.
She left ten paintings, signed and dated between 1745 and 1769. She died in Paris on 11 May 1783.
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Loir, Marianne (1705-1783) - Portrait of Madame Geoffrin
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