Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Servières, née CharenUmberto Todisco, Le personnel de la Cour des comptes (1807-1830), Droz (1969) Online @ Google Books (1786 – 20 March 1855) was a French painter in the Troubadour style. She specialized in genre period paintings.
Biography In 1807 she married the playwright Joseph Servières. She trained with her stepfather, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, Director of the French Academy in Rome.Théodore Guédy, Nouveau dictionnaire des peintres anciens et contemporains, Deplanche Online @ Google Books
Beginning in 1808, she exhibited her paintings, on a wide variety of subjects, in several venues. In 1808 and 1817, The Paris Salon awarded her medals.Charles Gabet, Dictionnaire des artistes de l’école française au 19th century, Vergne (1831) Online @ Google Books In 1825, she displayed two works at the Salon in Lille.
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.Adolphe Siret, Dictionnaire historique des peintres de toutes les écoles, Perichon (1858) Online @ Google Books
Her Mathilde converts Malek-Adhel to Christianity (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.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
Further reading Christie Margrave, Eugenie Servières paints the Romantic Orientalism of Sophie Cottin (2022) Online @ European Romanticisms in Association Geneviève Madec-Capy, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, peintre d'histoire (1760-1832), doctoral thesis, Sorbonne (1998) Online Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, Tauris (1979)
References
External links
Eugénie Servières @ the Joconde database