Jean-Jacques Henner

The sixth and last child of Alsatian peasants, Jean-Jacques Henner became an extremely successful portraitist and painter of female nudes in Second Empire and Third Republic Paris. His oeuvre included religious pictures, landscapes, and still lifes as well. Henner received his first training from Charles Goutzwiller (1810-1900) in Altkirch, and in 1844 he went to Strasbourg to study under Gabriel Guérin (1790-1846) at his private academy. Upon Guérin's death Henner moved to Paris and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts as a student of Alsatian compatriot Michel-Martin Drolling...