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Jean-Jacques Henner

Jean-Jacques Henner La liseuse oil painting on canvas
La liseuse
Painting ID::  89436
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Jean-Jacques Henner La liseuse oil painting on canvas



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  Jean-Jacques Henner
  1829-1905 French Jean Jacques Henner Galleries French painter. He was born into a peasant family in the Sundgau and received his first artistic training at Altkirch with Charles Goutzwiller (1810-1900) and later in Strasbourg in the studio of Gabriel-Christophe Gu?rin (1790-1846). In 1846 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a pupil of Michel-Martin Drolling and, from 1851, of Francois-Edouard Picot. While a student he was particularly drawn to portraiture, and during his frequent visits to Alsace he made portraits of his family as well as of the notables of the region. He also painted scenes of Alsatian peasant life.
  La liseuse
  1880-1890 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 94 x 123 cm (37 x 48.4 in) cyf

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