Héloïse Colin
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Héloïse Suzanne Colin (1819–1873), also known as Héloïse Leloir, was a painter and fashion illustrator during the Second French Empire.
Biography
Héloïse Colin was the eldest daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin and Marie Joseph Juhel. She married Auguste Leloir with whom she had two sons: the illustrator Maurice Leloir and the painter Alexandre-Louis Leloir.{{Cite book|last=Steele|first=Valerie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IsnMDgAAQBAJ&q=anais+toudouze&pg=PA96|title=Paris Fashion: A Cultural History|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2017|isbn=978-1-4742-6970-4|location=United Kingdom|pages=96|language=en}}
Colin exhibited her first drawings in the 1835 edition of the Salon. She painted watercolors, miniatures, and illustrations for novels, such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. However, she and her sisters Anaïs Toudouze and Laure Noël were best known for their work as illustrators of Parisian fashion of the mid-nineteenth,{{Cite book|last=Calahan|first=April|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfCACgAAQBAJ&q=anais+toudouze&pg=PA176|title=Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-300-21226-6|editor-last=Cannell|editor-first=Karen Trivette|location=New Haven and London|pages=176|language=en}} such as in the famous fashion magazine La Mode Illustrée.
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External links
- [http://data.bnf.fr/14966012/heloise_suzanne_colin/ Héloïse Colin] on Data.bnf.fr
- [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search?p=1&ps=12&involvedMaker=H%C3%A9lo%C3%AFse%20Leloir-Colin&st=Objects&ii=0 Works by Héloïse Leloir-Colin] held by the Rijksmuseum
- [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=H%C3%A9l%C3%B6ise%20Leloir&perPage=20&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0 Works by Hélöise Leloir] held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Category:19th-century French painters
Category:19th-century French illustrators
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