Nice pair of children family portraits were executed ca. in 1850s by good listed French figure, miniature and genre watercolour painter Heloise Susanne Colin, in marrige Leloir (1820 - Paris - 1873). She was daughter of historical painter Alexandre-Marie Colin and mother of painter-illustrator Maurice Leloir. Heloise Colin married painter Jean-Auguste Leloir in 1842.

Literature: E.Benezit "Dictionnaire des peintres , sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs",Gründ, 1999; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: each signed lower left, twice signed on the original matt .

Technique: old matted and framed watercolours on paper.

Measurements: each image 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" (21 x 16 cm), matted 12 1/4 " x 10 1/4" (31 x 26 cm)

Condition: very good.