Marie-Victoire Lemoine

Selected Works

Two young women are in an artist's studio. The woman at the center has light skin, brown curly hair with a white cloth tied in it, and wears a white dress with blue ribbons and red sash. She is holding a paint palette and a long stick of some kind, and looking at an unfinished painting of a girl that is on an easel. Nearby, the other young woman is seated hunched over a drawing board. She has light skin, dark hair tied with blue ribbon, and wears a brownish shiny dress with a white shawl.

Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter

1789
Marie-Victoire Lemoine, Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter, 1789. Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 88.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.103
Metropolitan Museum of Art

A young woman with very light skin, very pink cheeks and lips, and a large updo of curly dark brown hair is shown from the waist up. She wears a dark orange-colored dress with long sleeves and a white ruffled neckline and wrists, as well as flowers that may be roses in her hair.

Portrait of a Lady

ca. 1790
Marie-Victoire Lemoine, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1790. Oil on canvas, 72.1 x 58.4 cm. Speed Art Museum, Bequest of Alice Speed Stoll, 1998.6.4
Speed Art Museum

A young girl is standing outdoors, holding a basket of cut flowers and looking directly at the viewer. She has very light skin, pink cheeks, and dark blonde curly hair that has a blue ribbon and small flowers in it. She wears a cream-colored dress with a ruffled lacy neckline and a purple sash that continues down the back of the skirt.

Portrait of a Young Girl

ca. 1790
Marie-Victoire Lemoine, Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1790. Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35.6 cm. Speed Art Museum, Bequest of Alice Speed Stoll, 1998.6.5
Speed Art Museum

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