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Thérèse Eléonore Lingée

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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 [fr],
J. F. Lefèvre
The Rape of the Sabine Women (c. 1780) stipple engraving by Thérèse Éléonore Lingée, after Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790)
The Rape of the Sabine Women (c. 1780) stipple engraving by Thérèse Éléonore Lingée, after Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790)

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

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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 [fr] (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

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  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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