Eugénie Servières

Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Servières, née Charen[1] (1786 – 20 March 1855) was a French painter in the Troubadour style.

Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Servières
Portrait of Eugénie Servières, drawing by Jean-Baptiste Wicar, circa 1810 (Rome, Museo napoleonico)
Born
Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Charen

1786 (1786)
Died1855 (aged 6869)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting
Spouse
Joseph Servières
(m. 1807)
Inez de Castro and her Children at the feet of the King of Portugal (1822)
Geneviève and Lancelot at the Tombs of Isolde and Tristan by Eugénie Servières (c. 1814)

In 1807 she married the playwright Joseph Servières and is generally known as Mme. de Servières. She trained with her stepfather, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière and specialized in genre period paintings. The Paris Salon awarded her medals in 1808 and 1817.

Her Mathilde makes Malek-Adhel promise to become a Christian (1812, from a novel about the Crusades by Sophie Cottin) was purchased by the Empress Marie Louise for her personal collection, while the evocative Inez de Castro and her Children at the feet of the King of Portugal is preserved at the Trianon Palace at Versailles, near Paris.

Notes

  1. Todisco, U. (1969). Le personnel de la Cour des comptes (1807-1830). Centre de recherches d histoire et de philologie hautes etudes medievales et moderne (in French). Droz. p. 203. ISBN 978-2-600-03361-9.

Further reading

  • Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, Tauris (1979)


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