Thérèse Eléonore Lingée (née Thérèse-Éléonore Hémery; –January 22, 1818) was a French engraver, known for her crayon manner stipple engravings. She engraved religious subjects, genre scenes and portraits. She was from a French family of engravers.
Life and career Thérèse Eléonore Lingée was born as Thérèse-Éléonore Hémery in , in Paris. She was from a family of noted engravers. Her older sister was engraver Marguerite Hémery (later known as Marguerite Ponce); and her brother was engraver Antoine-François Hémery.
She married the engraver (c. 1748–1819); and later married artist J. F. Lefèvre.
Lingée was a member of the Royal Academy of Marseille.
Her artwork is in museum collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts; the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen; the British Museum in London; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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