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Thérèse Eléonore Lingée

French engraver (1753–1833) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thérèse Eléonore Lingée
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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.

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

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