Louis Hector Leroux | |
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.jpg) Hector Leroux, c. 1875 | |
| Born | 27 December 1829 Verdun, France |
| Died | 11 November 1900 (aged 70) Angers, France |
| Other names | spelling variant: Le Roux |
| Education | École des beaux-arts de Paris, François-Édouard Picot |
| Occupation | painter |
| Known for | paintings of Vestal virgins |
| Movement | Academic art; Caldarrosti; Néo-Grecs |
| Relatives | Laura Leroux-Revault, daughter |
| Awards | Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome, 1857; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1877 |
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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.