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L'HEUREUX (LIVERNOIS), Élise
- Born
- Quebec City, Quebec, 1827
- Died
- Quebec City, Quebec, 1896
- Biography synopsis
- In 1853 Elise L'Heureux and her husband Jules Isaie Livernois opened a photography studio out of the home of L'Heureux's parents. They soon ran three studios and specialized in portraits, with L'Heureux winning acclaim for her portraits of children. When Livernois died in 1865, L'Heureux took over the business, and a year later entered into a partnership with her son-in-law Louis Bienvenu. The Livernois & Bienvenu photography studio expanded to include calling cards and landscapes, many of which are now owned by the Musée Nationale des Beaux-arts du Québec. The partnership dissolved in 1873 when L'Heureux's son Jules Ernest Livernois took over the family business.
- Media used
- Photography
- File & Archive locations
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec - Bibliothèque
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Béland, Mario. "La Dynastie Livernois." Continuité 122 (2009): 39-44
- Desrochers, Lucie. "Elles ont brassé des affaires." Cap-aux-Diamants : La revue d'histoire du Québec 95 (2008): 16-19
- Hannavy, John, ed.. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York: Routledge, 2008
- Karel, David. Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes et orfèvres. Quebec: Museé du Québec, 1992
- Lessard, Michel. Échos : Hommage aux Livernois. Rougemont, Quebec: Éditions du Dragon d'eau, 1993
- Lessard, Michel. Le studio Livernois 1854-1874 : Un commerce familial d'art photographique à Québec. Quebec City: Université Laval, 1986
- Lessard, Michel. Les Livernois photographes. Quebec: Musée du Québec, 1987
- Lessard, Michel. "La dynastie des Livernois." Réseau. Le magazine de l'Université du Québec. 19.1(Sept. 1987): 12-17
- Mailhot, Carl. "Cent ans de photographie à Québec, de 1857 à 1960, avec Jules-Isaie, Jules-Ernest et Jules Livernois." Perspectives 17.34 (23 Aug. 1975): 2-7
- National Photography Collection. Livernois: Twenty-Four Historical Photographs of Quebec by the Livernois Family of Photographers (1865 - circa 1915). Ottawa: The Archives, 1982
- Skidmore, Colleen. Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840-1940 Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press, 2022
