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JEAN JACQUES HENNER (1829-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 272 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN JACQUES See also:HENNER (1829-1905)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:March 1829 at Dornach (See also:Alsace) . At first a See also:pupil of Drolling and of Picot, he entered the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de See also:Rome with a See also:painting of " See also:Adam and See also:Eve finding the See also:Body of See also:Abel " (1858) . At Rome he was guided by See also:Flandrin, and, among other See also:works, painted four pictures for the See also:gallery at See also:Colmar . He first exhibited at the See also:Salon in 1863 a " Bather Asleep," and subsequently contributed " Chaste Susanna " (1865) ; " Byblis turned into a See also:Spring " (1867); " The Magdalene " (1878); " Portrait of M . Hayem " (1878); " See also:Christ Entombed " (1879); " See also:Saint See also:Jerome " (1881); " Herodias " (1887); " A Study " (1891); " Christ in His See also:Shroud," and a " Portrait of Carolus-See also:Duran " (I896); a " Portraitof Mlle Fouquier" (1897); "The Levite of the Tribe of See also:Ephraim" (1898), for which a first-class See also:medal was awarded to him; and "The See also:Dream" (1900) . Among other professional distinctions See also:Henner also took a See also:Grand Prix for painting at the See also:Paris Inter-See also:national See also:Exhibition of 1900 . He was made See also:Knight of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1873, Officer in 1878 and See also:Commander in 1889 . In 1889 he succeeded See also:Cabanel in the Institut de See also:France . See E . Bricon, Psychologie d'See also:art (Paris, 1900) ; C . See also:Phillips, Art See also:Journal (1888); F . See also:Wedmore, See also:Magazine of Art (1888) .

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