Louis Hersent
Louis Hersent | |
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Born | Paris, France | 10 March 1777
Died | 2 October 1860 | (aged 83)
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Occupation | painter |
Louis Hersent (10 March 1777 – 2 October 1860)[1] was a French painter.
Life and career[]
He was born in Paris.[1] He became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797.[1] In the Salon of 1802, he showed Metamorphosis of Narcissus, and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to 1831.[1] He married Louise-Marie-Jeanne Mauduit in 1821.
His pupils were , , , , Henri Joseph Constant Dutilleux, , , , , , , Julie Philipault, , , , Henry de Triqueti, and .[2] 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.[1]
Hersent's typical works, however, belong to the period of the Restoration; Louis XVI relieving the Afflicted (Versailles) and Daphnis and Chloë (engraved by and by ) were both in the Salon of 1817;[1] at that of 1819 the Abdication of Gustavus Vasa brought to Hersent a medal of honour, but the picture, purchased by the Duke of Orléans, was destroyed at the Palais-Royal in 1848, and the engraving by Henriquel-Dupont is now its sole record.[1] Ruth, produced in 1822, became the property of Louis XVIII, who from the moment that Hersent rallied to the Restoration jealously patronized him, made him officer of the Legion of Honour, and pressed his claims at the Institut de France (Académie des Beaux-Arts), where he replaced van Spaendonck.[1]
He continued in favour under Charles X, for whom was executed Monks of Mount St Gotthard, exhibited in 1824.[1] In 1831, Hersent made his last appearance at the Salon with portraits of Louis Philippe, Marie Amélie and the duke of Montpensier;[1] that of the king, though good, is not equal to the portrait of Spontini (Berlin), which is probably Hersent's chef-d'œuvre.[1]
After this date, Hersent ceased to exhibit at the yearly salons.[1] Although in 1846 he sent an excellent likeness of Delphine Gay and one or two other works to the rooms of the Société d'Artistes, he could not be tempted from his usual reserve even by the international contest of 1855.[1]
Gallery[]
Sophie Crouzet by Hersent, c. 1801[3]
Mort de Xavier Bichat ou Bichat mourant assisté par les Drs Esparron et Roux (Exibited at Salon of 1817)
Portrait de Madame Jean-Charles Clarmont, née Rosalie Favrin (1772-1858), 1828
La Reine Marie-Amélie et ses Enfants, 1835
Daphnis and Chloé
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Chisholm 1911
- ^ Louis Hersent in the RKD
- ^ https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.659
Sources[]
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. .
External links[]
Media related to Louis Hersent at Wikimedia Commons
- 1777 births
- 1860 deaths
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- Pupils of Jacques-Louis David
- Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery