Suzanne Héloïse COLIN, better know as Héloise LELOIR born September 3, 1819 in Paris and died November 19, 1873, is a French painter and fashion illustrator of the Second Empire. Héloïse COLIN is the daughter of the painter Alexandre COLIN and Marie Joseph JUHEL, herself a painter who died in Nîmes in 1838 and who rests in the Saint-Baudile cemetery under a recumbent statue sculpted by her brother-in-law COLIN. She married in Paris on May 17, 1842 the painter Auguste LELOIR with whom she had two children: the illustrator Maurice LELOIR, and the painter Alexandre-Louis LELOIR. Héloïse exhibited her first drawings at the Salon of 1835. She mainly produced watercolors and became known through portraits of small dimensions. Héloïse is, with her two sisters Adèle Anaïs wife of the painter Gabriel TOUDOUZE and Laure NOEL, among the greatest illustrators of Parisian fashion of the mid-nineteenth century. She signed her works "H. Colin" or "Melle Colin", "Héloïse Colin" and, after her marriage, "Héloïse Leloir"