Louis Hersent (10 March 1777 – 2 October 1860) was a French painter.
Life and career
He was born in Paris. He became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and obtained the in 1797. In the Salon of 1802, he showed Metamorphosis of Narcissus, and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to the Salon of 1831.
His most considerable works under the First French Empire were Achilles parting from Briseis, and Atala dying in the arms of Chactas (both engraved in Landon's Annales du Musée); an Incident of the life of Fénelon, painted in 1810, found a place at Malmaison, and Passage of the Bridge at Landshut, which belongs to the same date, is now at Versailles.
File:Louis Hersent - Mort de Xavier Bichat.jpg|Mort de Xavier Bichat ou Bichat mourant assisté par les D<sup>rs</sup> Esparron et Roux (Exhibited at Salon of 1817)
File:Madame Jean-Charles Clarmont, née Rosalie Favrin.jpg|Portrait de Madame Jean-Charles Clarmont, née Rosalie Favrin (1772-1858), 1828
File:Queen Marie Amélie with her youngest sons, the Dukes of Montpensier and Aumale by Louis Hersent (1835, Versailles) .jpg|La Reine Marie-Amélie et ses Enfants, 1835
File:Louis hersent, dafne e cloe, 1842, 01.jpg|Daphnis and Chloé
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