JEAN JACQUES

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• JEAN JACQUES HENNER (1829-1905)

HENNER (1829-1905)  , French painter, was born on the 5th of March 1829 at Dornach (Alsace) . At first a pupil of Drolling and of Picot, he entered the Ecole 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 works, painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar . He 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); " Christ Entombed " (1879); " Saint Jerome " (1881); " Herodias " (1887); " A Study " (1891); " Christ in His Shroud," and a " Portrait of Carolus-Duran " (I896); a " Portraitof 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 Inter-national Exhibition of 1900 . He was made Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1873, Officer in 1878 and Commander in 1889 . In 1889 he 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) .