Louis Hector Leroux
French painter (1829-1900)
Louis Hector Leroux (27 December 1829, Verdun-11 November 1900, Angers) was a French painter in the academic style, affiliated by critics with the Néo-Grecs movement in art. He specialized in meticulously researched paintings of ancient Rome, especially depictions of women. He was best known for a series of some thirty paintings which spanned his entire career, depicting Vestal virgins. His daughter, Laura Leroux-Revault, was also a painter.
Education, years in Rome
Born into a family of modest means in Verdun, Leroux was apprenticed to his father, a barber, before attending drawing classes at the Collège de Verdun, taught by a painter trained in the workshops of Antoine-Jean Gros and Michel Martin Drolling, who quickly spotted his talent. From 1849 to 1855, first the General Council of the Meuse and then the city of Verdun granted him annual scholarships to pursue his education in Paris.
In 1849, at the age of twenty, he entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris and for eleven years studied in the atelier of François-Édouard Picot, where he won medals for drawing, landscape, and historical composition. It was in Picot's studio that he met his lifelong friend Jean-Jacques Henner. He supported himself by working as a lithographer and as an illustrator for fashion journals.
In 1857, 1858, and 1859 he entered the annual competition for the Prix de Rome, administered by the Institut de France, which awarded the Grand Prix winner a multi-year scholarship to study and paint in Rome.
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