This oil certainly on panel (it was not opened), represents, as very often in the work of Jean Jacques HENNER, a redhead woman.
Jean Jacques HENNER is a famous painter of the late nineteenth century.
A museum dedicated to Jean Jacques HENNER, created in the 1920s by the widow of Jules HENNER, the artist’s nephew.
This very famous painter appears in many museums in France and abroad.
The BENEZIT says of him: he was born on March 5, 1829 in Bernwiller in the Haut-Rhin and died on July 23, 1905 in Paris.
He entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1847 in the workshops of Drolling and Picot.
He won the Prix de Rome in 1858.
He received many medals (first class medal of the Universal Exhibition of 1878, out of competition at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, grand prize at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, grand officer of the Legion of Honor in 1903.
Filled with honors, he enjoyed among the artists of great consideration.
His success came from his milky nudes, with red hair, vaporous on brown backgrounds, sometimes placing them in rural or allegorical compositions.
HENNER at part of his studio at the Musée de la ville de Paris.
Museums: Paris: musée Jean Jacques HENNER, musée du Petit Palais, musée d'Orsay.
It is also exhibited in many other museums: Colmar, Carpentras, Dijon, Lille, Montreal, Mulhouse, Grenoble, La Rochelle, Stockholm, Vannes etc...
This painting is "in its juice".
It is set in a superb 19th-century baroque gilt-wood stucco frame, which alone gives an indication of the value of this painting.
It is protected by a window.
Format with frame: 42 cm x 31.50 cm.
View size: 27.50 cm x 17 cm.
The photos are taken in natural light.
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