Marguerite_Émilie_Chalgrin

Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin

Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin

French painter and illustrator (1760–1794)

Marguerite Émilie Félecité Chalgrin (7 July 1760 – 20 June 1794) was an aristocratic French painter who was executed by guillotine in 1794.[1][2][3]

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Chalgrin is the daughter of French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet and Virginia Parker.[4][5]

In 1776, she married the architect Jean-François Chalgrin, who won the Prix de Rome in 1758. Claude Joseph Vernet gave his daughter a dowry of 40,000 francs and gyave his son-in-law the painting Les Cascatelles de Tivoli.[6]

In 1777, Chalgrin gave birth to a daughter, Louise-Josèphe. However, her marriage was not harmonious, and in 1782 Jean-François Chalgrin abandoned his family.[7]

From 1790, Chalgrin had a relationship with Baron Antoine Pierre Piscatory (1760–1852).

During the Revolution, Émilie took refuge with her friend Rosalie Filleul at the Hôtel de Travers, located rue Bois-Le-Vent, in Passy, near the Château de la Muette.

During the Terror, Rosalie committed the imprudence of entrusting a junk dealer with several pieces of furniture from the Château de la Muette, unaware that they bore the royal mark.[citation needed]

Marguerite was denounced to the General Security Committee and, caught red-handed at her second-hand dealer, was accused of complicity in theft and concealment of objects belonging to the Republic. A candle bearing the stamp was found in her house of Provence, worth 20 pounds. [citation needed]

She was accused of "burning the candles of the nation," found guilty, and sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal. She was guillotined in the Place du Trône-Renversé on 24 June 1794, three days before the wedding of her daughter Louise-Josèphe.

References

  1. [1]
    Filleul, Rosalie (c. 1780), English: Portrait of Marguerite-Émilie-Chalgrin (1760-1794), retrieved 4 February 2023
  2. [2]
    Limited, Alamy. ". Français : épouse de l'architecte Jean-François Chalgrin, fille du peintre Claude Joseph Vernet. Portrait of Marguerite-Émilie-Chalgrin (1760-1794). circa 1780. Filleul Marguerite-Emilie-Chalgrin Stock Photo - Alamy". www.alamy.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  3. [3]
    Craveri, Benedetta (20 October 2020). The Last Libertines. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-68137-341-6.
  4. [4]
    "Rosalie Filleul, a victim of the Terror". Madame Guillotine. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  5. [5]
    Vatel, Charles (1872). Charlotte de Corday et les Girondins: pièces classées et annotées (in French). H. Plon.
  6. [6]
    Harkett, Daniel; Hornstein, Katie (7 March 2017). Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press. ISBN 978-1-5126-0043-8.
  7. [7]
    Nouvelles archives de l'art français (in French). Société de l'histoire de l'art français. 1893.
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