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A French painter born in Paris in 1818 and who died in Dardagny in 1885, Armand Hubert Simon Leleux developed an oeuvre in which realistic genre scenes sit alongside more intimate interiors. His genre scenes draw on folkloric or picturesque subjects. According to the source, his interior compositions belong to a Flemish or Dutch style.
The younger brother of the painter Adolphe Pierre Leleux, he was a pupil of Ingres and accompanied him to Italy in 1835. He stayed there for two years and made copies under his teacher’s guidance, a formative experience reported by the biographical source. He then travelled, notably to Germany and Switzerland, from which he brought back subjects for his genre paintings, before settling in Switzerland. In 1848, he married the Geneva painter Louise-Émilie Giraud; the couple then divided their time between Paris and Dardagny, where his wife’s family owned a small château. In Dardagny, they welcomed, among others, the painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, as well as Théophile Gautier and Eugène Sue.
Among the works noted in public collections is Jeune petite fille à la tasse du chocolat, held at the musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie Joseph-Déchelette de Roanne. The Musée Bertrand de Châteauroux also holds Intérieur de cuisine du château de La Moustière (Indre), an oil on canvas measuring 65 × 55 cm, acquired in 1882. A Vierge et quatre saints by Leleux is located in the church of Saint-Donat in Saint-Point; the painting was protected as a historic monument in 2023. In 1882, he published Souvenirs d’artiste in the Bibliothèque universelle.
This profile brings together identity references for Armand Leleux and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
8 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Schuler, Genève Enchères, Piguet. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on canvas
Der Zeichenlehrer in Sassuolo
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2025-09-12
Published result : 1500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2500
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Oil on panel
Le siège,
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2021-05-26 — 2021-06-09
Published result : 250 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500–700
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Le siège,
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2021-03-02 — 2021-03-17
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 500–700
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Oil on canvas
Portrait de Madame Armand Leleux au chevalet
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2016-04-20
Published result : 1500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1200–1500
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Idyllische Heuernte beim Salève.
Öl auf Lwd
Date to be documented
Published result : 1900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2600
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Oil on wood
Die Musikstunde.
Öl auf Holz
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Armand H. Leleux (1818-1885), Jeune fille au
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2018-09-26
Published result : 550 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500–700
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Oil on canvas
Sur le chemin du village
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2018-09-26
Published result : 300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 300–500
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
