Lucile Messageot

Marguerite Françoise Lucie Messageot, or Lucile Franque (13 September 1780, Lons-le-Saunier - 23 May 1803, place unknown) was a French painter and author.

She was born to Jean-Joseph Messageot, a cavalry officer, and his wife Marie Françoise, née Clerc.

The group was created by Pierre-Maurice Quays, a student of Jacques-Louis David, and advocated a return to earlier, simpler artistic styles.

She is the author of fragments of an Essay on the harmonies of melancholy and the arts, and of a poem, Le Tombeau d'Éléonore.

[1] A group portrait of her family is her only work in a public collection: the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

The Messageot-Charve Family (Lucile is standing, on the left, with her younger brother, Xavier. The woman in the middle is her mother, and the figure behind is her father-in-law, Claude-Antoine Charve, a judge. The woman in white is her sister Fanny, with her half-sister Désirée, who would marry the author, Charles Nodier )