Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754 – Dec. 2, 1820); French classicist painter. Born in Paris, Marie-Victoire Lemoine was the eldest daughter of Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle. Her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou, also became painters. However, unlike her sisters, she remained unmarried and became one of the few women in contemporary art that made a living through painting. She was a student of François-Guillaume Ménageot in the early 1770s, with whom she lived and worked in a house acquired by the art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, next to Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's studio. From 1779, Marie-Victoire Lemoine resided in her parents' home until she moved in with her sister Marie-Elisabeth, where she remained even after her sister's death. She died 6 years after her last exhibition, aged 66 Marie-Victoire Lemoine mainly painted portraits, miniatures, and genre scenes. She took part in numerous Salons, for example Pahin de la Blancherie's Salon de Correspondance in 1779, where she exhibited a portrait of the Princess Lamballe. Following this salon, she continued to display her works of art to the public in the salons of 1796, 1798, 1799, 1802, 1804 and 1814. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Victoire_Lemoine) Born in Paris in 1754, Marie Victoire Lemoine had 2 sisters—Marie Élisabeth Gabiou (d. 1811/14) and Marie Denise Villers (1774–1821)—who were also artists. Marie Victoire seems to have been the oldest and reportedly she studied with the history painter François Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816), who returned to Paris from Rome in 1775 to become a full academician in 1781. Ménageot rented an apartment in a house belonging to the husband of the portraitist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), with whose work Lemoine must have been familiar. She exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance in 1779 and 1785, and at the Salon intermittently from 1796 to 1804 and in 1814. (http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436875) undefined

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