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Children Jumping Rope

 

Victorian Fashion plate. An angelic looking little girl with golden locks jumps rope while her brothers and sisters look on.

Handcolored steel engraving after a drawing by Heloise Leloir.

 

Heloise Suzanne Leloir was one of the great fashion print artists of the 19th Century was part of a distinguished artists family.

The daughter of the painter Alexandre Colin, she married the painter Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir (1809-1992), and was the mother of Maurice Leloir, an artist who later became a film producer in Hollywood.

Heloise's two sisters -- Anais Toudouze and Laure Noel-- were also talented artists and fashion plate illustrators.

 

Leloir is listed in Benezit as a miniaturist and watercolorist, but is best known for her works for the fashion industry in Paris.

Condition: Light age discoloration, in particular at crease on top.

 

Dimensions: 14.5 x 11 inches

$ 80

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