Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin

Marguerite Émilie Félecité Chalgrin (7 July 1760 – 24 July 1794) was an aristocratic French painter who was executed by guillotine in 1794.^[1][2][3]

Marguerite Émilie Félecité Chalgrin
Born	Marguerite Émilie Félecité Vernet (1760-07-20)20 July 1760 Bayonne, France
Died	24 July 1794(1794-07-24) (aged 34) Paris
Resting place	Cimetière de Verdelais
Known for	Painting, printmaking, drawing
Spouse	Jean Chalgrin ​ (m. 1776)​

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 gave 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 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)
3. Craveri, Benedetta (20 October 2020). The Last Libertines. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-68137-341-6.
4. "Rosalie Filleul, a victim of the Terror". Madame Guillotine. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
5. Vatel, Charles (1872). Charlotte de Corday et les Girondins: pièces classées et annotées (in French). H. Plon.
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.