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Jean-Jacques Henner BiographyFrench Academic Classical painterborn 5 March 1829 - died 1905 Student of: François-Edouard Picot
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French painter, was born on the 5th of March 1829 at Dornach (Alsace). At first a pupil of Drolling and of Picot, Jean-Jacques Henner entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel (1858). At Rome he was guided by Flandrin, and, among other paintings, painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar. Jean-Jacques Henner paintings first exhibited at the Salon in 1863 a Bather Asleep, and subsequently contributed Chaste Susanna (1865); Byblis turned into a Spring (1867); The Magdalene (1878); Portrait of M. Hayem (1878). | |||||||
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Christ Entombed
(1879); Saint Jerome (1881); Herodias
(1887); A Study (1891); Christ in His
Shroud, and a Portrait of Carolus-Duran
(1896); a Portrait of Mlle Fouquier (1897);
The Levite of the Tribe of Ephraim (1898),
for which a first-class medal was awarded to
him; and The Dream (1900). Among other
professional distinctions Henner also took a
Grand Prix for painting at the Paris
International Exhibition of 1900. Jean-Jacques Henner was
made Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1873,
Officer in 1878 and Commander in 1889. In
1889 Jean-Jacques Henner succeeded Cabanel in the Institut de
France. See E. Bricon, Psychologie d'art (Paris, 1900); C. Phillips, Art Journal (1888); F. Wedmore, Magazine of Art (1888). |
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