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French painter and illustrator (1760–1794)

Marguerite Émilie Félecité Chalgrin
BornMarguerite Émilie Félecité Vernet
(1760-07-20)20 July 1760
Bayonne, France
Died24 July 1794(1794-07-24) (aged 34)
Paris
Resting placeCimetière de Verdelais
Known forPainting, printmaking, drawing
Spouse Jean Chalgrin ​(m. 1776)​

Marguerite Émilie Félecité Chalgrin (7 July 1760 – 24 July 1794) was an aristocratic French painter who was executed by guillotine in 1794.

Chalgrin is the daughter of French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet and Virginia Parker.

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 gave his son-in-law the painting Les Cascatelles de Tivoli.

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.

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.

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.

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 July 1794, three days before the wedding of her daughter Louise-Josèphe.

References

  1. Filleul, Rosalie (c. 1780), English: Portrait of Marguerite-Émilie-Chalgrin (1760-1794), retrieved 4 February 2023
  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. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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  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. Nouvelles archives de l'art français (in French). Société de l'histoire de l'art français. 1893.
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