Thérèse Eléonore Lingée

Thérèse Eléonore Lingée
Born
Thérèse-Éléonore Hémery

c. 1750
Paris, France
DiedJanuary 22, 1818
Paris, France
Other namesEléonore Lingée,
Mlle Lingée,
Eléonore Lefèvre
Occupation(s)Engraver, designer
Spouse(s)Charles Louis Lingée,
J. F. Lefèvre

Thérèse Eléonore Lingée (née Thérèse-Éléonore Hémery; c. 1750–January 22, 1818) was a French engraver, known for her crayon manner stipple engravings. She engraved religious subjects, genre scenes and portraits. She was from a French family of engravers.

Life and career

Thérèse Eléonore Lingée was born as Thérèse-Éléonore Hémery in c. 1750, in Paris.[1] She was from a family of noted engravers.[2] Her older sister was engraver Marguerite Hémery (later known as Marguerite Ponce); and her brother was engraver Antoine-François Hémery.

She married the engraver Charles Louis Lingée (c. 1748–1819);[1] and later married artist J. F. Lefèvre.[3]

Lingée was a member of the Royal Academy of Marseille.[4]

Her artwork is in museum collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City;[5] the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts;[6] the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen; the British Museum in London;[3] and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lingée, Thérèse Éléonore". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. October 31, 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00110074. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
  2. ^ Landes, Joan B. (August 6, 2018). Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Cornell University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-5017-2753-5.
  3. ^ a b "Eléonore Lingée". The British Museum.
  4. ^ Grolier Club (1901). Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings and Lithographs by Women: Exhibited at the Grolier Club, April 12 to 27, 1901. Grolier Club. p. 61.
  5. ^ "Portrait of L. Chardiny". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  6. ^ "Imitation of the antique (L'Imitation de l'antique)". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
  7. ^ "Thérèse-Éléonore Lingée". National Gallery of Art.


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