Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits.
Biography
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Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studies in art as a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot. In 1848, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel in 1858. In Rome, he was guided by Flandrin, and painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar among other works.
He first exhibited Bather Asleep at the Salon in 1863 and subsequently contributed Chaste Susanna (1865), now in the Musée d'Orsay. Other noted works include: Byblis turned into a Spring (1867); The Magdalene (1878); Portrait of M. Hayem (1878); Christ Entombed (1879); Saint Jerome (1881); Bara (1882); Herodias (1887); A Study (1891); Christ in His Shroud and a Portrait of Carolus-Duran (1896); a Portrait of Mlle Fouquier (1897); and The Dream (1900).
Henner died at age 76 in Paris.
Pupils
thumb|150px|Henner's portrait of Laura Leroux, 1898, [[Musée d'Orsay, Paris.]]
Henner had numerous pupils; among them were the American painter Mathilde Mueden Leisenring and the Romanian artist Dimitrie Serafim. From 1874 to 1889 he taught at "the studio of the ladies", organized with Carolus-Duran, at a time when women were not allowed entry to the École des Beaux-Arts. Some of these students also served as his models. One of these was Dorothy Tennant, who later married Henry Morton Stanley. Another was Laura Leroux-Revault, daughter of his close friend Hector Leroux; Henner's full-length portrait of Laura Leroux now at the Musée d'Orsay was shown at the Paris Salon of 1898 and purchased by the French State.
Another pupil was Elizabeth Snowden Nichols Watrous (1858–1921), later the wife of artist Harry Watrous. Henner gave the couple a painting when they were married in 1887.
Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) also worked as one of his models.
Bibliography
- E Bricon, Psychologie d'art (Paris, 1900); C Phillips, Art Journal (1888)
- Frederick Wedmore, Magazine of Art (1888).
- Isabelle de Lannoy, Catalogue raisonne Jean-Jacques Henner 1829-1905 [2008]
Gallery
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Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Reclining Nude.jpg|Reclining Nude,<br />National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Image:1869 Jean-Jacques Henner - Woman on a black divan.jpg|Woman on a Black Divan,<br />Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - La liseuse.jpg|La liseuse,<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Nus féminins.jpg|Nus féminins<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Jesus at the Tomb.jpg|Jésus au tombeau<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Jules Janssen Orsay.jpg|Jules Janssen<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image:Jean Jacques Henner Portrait D-Homme.jpg|Portrait d'homme<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Portrait of a Young Girl with a Bow in Her Hair.jpg|Portrait of a Young Girl with a Bow in Her Hair, private collection
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Alsatian Girl.jpg|Alsatian Girl,<br />National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Image:Fabiola - Jean Jacques Henner.png|Saint Fabiola <br /> copy of lost original
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Study Of A Woman In Red.jpg|Study of a Woman in Red, The Hermitage,<br />St. Petersburg, Russia
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - A Red haired Beauty.jpg|A Red-Haired Beauty,<br />private collection
Image:Brooklyn Museum - Head of a Girl - Jean Jacques Henner.jpg|Head of a Girl - Brooklyn Museum
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - The Chaste Susannah.jpg|The Chaste Susannah<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image:Jean Jacques Henner le reveil de l enfant.jpg|Le réveil de l'enfant<br />Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
Image:Jean Jacques Henner - Solitude.jpg|Penitent Magdalene,<br />private collection - Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, California
Image:Idylle-Jean-Jacques Henner-Orsay.jpg|Idylle<br />Musée d'Orsay,<br />Paris
Image: Jean-Jacques Henner - Bara - PPP182 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.jpg|Bara<br/>Petit Palais,<br/>Paris
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See also
- Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner