Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Servières, née Charen (1786 – 20 March 1855) was a French painter in the

Troubadour style Taking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style () is a rather derisive term, in English usually applied to French historical painting of the early 19th century with idealised depictions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In ...

. She specialized in

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

period paintings.

Biography

In 1807 she married the playwright

Joseph Servières Joseph Servières (20 July 1781 – 3 February 1826online archive of the City of Paris, reconstructed civil status, fiche n° 6/5/ref>) was an early 19th-century French playwright. Biography After studying in hos hometown, Servières came to P ...

. She trained with her stepfather,

Guillaume Guillon-Lethière Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (; 10 January 1760 – 22 April 1832) was a French people, French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter. Life Youth He was born in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, out of wedlock, to Marie-Françoise Dupepaye, a free person ...

, Director of the

French Academy in Rome The French Academy in Rome (, ) is an academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy. History The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 1666 by Louis XIV under the dire ...

. Beginning in 1808, she exhibited her paintings, on a wide variety of subjects, in several venues. In 1808 and 1817, The

Paris Salon The Salon (), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world. At the ...

awarded her medals. In 1825, she displayed two works at the Salon in

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

. Her paintings include ''Hagar in the Desert'', ''Lancelot and Genevieve'', ''Louis XIII and Mlle. de Lafayette'', ''Alain Chartier and Marguerite d'Écosse'', ''Valentine de Milan'', ''Desdemona Singing the Romance of the Willow'', and ''Blanche de Castille Delivering the Prisoners of Châtenay''. Her ''Mathilde converts Malek-Adhel to Christianity'' (1812, from a novel about the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding t ...

by Sophie Cottin) was purchased by the Empress

Marie Louise Marie Louise or Marie-Louise is a French feminine given name, compound given name. In other languages, it may take one of several alternate forms: * Maria Luiza (Bulgarian, Portuguese) * Maria Luisa (Italian, Spanish) * Maria Luise (German) * Mari ...

for her personal collection, while the evocative ''

Inez de Castro Inez is a feminine given name. It is the English spelling of the Spanish and Portuguese name Inés/Inês/Inez, the forms of the given name " Agnes". The name is pronounced as , , or Agnes is a woman's given name, which derives from the Greek w ...

and her Children at the feet of the King of Portugal'' is preserved at the Trianon Palace at

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ...

, near Paris.Maryse Violin-Savalle, ''Images croisées de la femme romantique à travers la littérature et la peinture, en France de 1765 à 1833'', Villeneuve d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1998, Most of her works were personally commissioned, and very few are in museums. She had several students.

Selected paintings

File:Servieres-Portrait.jpg, ''Young Woman on a Balcony'' (1812) File:Inès de Castro se jetant avec ses enfants aux pieds d'Alphonse IV roi.jpg, ''

and her Children at the feet of the

King of Portugal This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portugal, Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution. Thro ...

'' (1822) File:Servieres-Lancelot.jpg, ''

Geneviève Genevieve (; ; also called ''Genovefa'' and ''Genofeva''; 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) was a consecrated virgin, and is one of the two patron saints of Paris in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. Her feast day is on 3 January. Rec ...

and

Lancelot Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively written as Launcelot and other variants, is a popular character in the Matter of Britain, Arthurian legend's chivalric romance tradition. He is typically depicted as King Arthu ...

at the Tombs of

Tristan and Isolde Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century. Of disputed source, usually assumed to be primarily Celtic, the tale is a tragedy about ...

'' (c. 1814) File:Louis XIII et Mlle de La Fayette - Eugenie Servieres.jpg, ''

Louis XIII of France Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown. ...

and

Madame de La Fayette Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored ''La Princesse de Clèves'', France's first historical novel and one ...

'' (1817) File:Madame Antoine-Vincent Arnault, née Marie-Jeanne Catherine dite Sophie Guesnon de Bonneuil.jpg, ''Sophie Guesnon de Bonneuil (1770-1866), wife of

Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent, chevalier Arnault (1 January 176616 September 1834) was a French playwright. Life Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, ''Marius à Minturne'' (1791), immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed wit ...

'' (1806)

References

External links

Eugénie Servières
@ the

Joconde Joconde is the central database created in 1975 and now available online, maintained by the Minister of Culture (France), French Ministry of Culture, for objects in the collections of the main French public and private museums listed as ''Mus� ...

database {{DEFAULTSORT:Servieres, Eugenie Honoree Marguerite 1786 births 1855 deaths 19th-century French painters 19th-century French women painters

Biography

Selected paintings

Further reading

References

External links