Louise Astoud-Trolley

Louise Astoud-Trolley (August 1817 – 15 January 1883) was a French sculptor and painter.

Biography

Born in Paris, Louise Pauline Marie Astoud became a student of her mother and of the painter . She exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1865 to 1878. She was the secretary of the artist's society founded by Isidore Taylor. She married François Alfred Trolley de Prévaux, a professor in the faculty of law at the University of Caen, and chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur.

Works

Sculpture

• Auguste Préault, Salon of 1865, bronze medaillon. Collection of the musée d'Orsay, Paris
• Elie Sorin, bas-relief, musée des beaux-arts d'Angers
• La Vierge et l'Enfant entourés de saint Julien et saint Nicolas de Myre, oil on canvas, after the work of Lorenzo di Credi (1494), Allières. église paroissiale Saint-Roch

Painting

• Jesucrist aparegut a la Magdalena, 1866.
• Retrat de l'emperadriu Eugenia de Montijo (1869) replica from the original by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
• La Verge amb el Nen i Sant Julià i Sant Nicolau de Mira, painting. Parochial Church of Saint-Roque, Allières·. copied from the original 1994 work by the Florentine painter Lorenzo di Credi.

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