Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Hesse

(b Paris, 30 Sept 1806; d Paris, 7 Aug 1879). Painter, nephew of (1) Nicolas-Auguste Hesse. He was the son of Henri-Joseph Hesse. He entered the studio of Jean-Victor Bertin in 1820, enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts the following year. He then travelled in France, visiting the Midi in 1825. In 1830 he visited first Rome, where he met Horace Vernet, Director of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, and then Venice. In 1833 he exhibited Funeral Honours Rendered to Titian after his Death at Venice during the Plague of 1576 (Paris, Louvre) at the Salon, where he won a first-class medal. The same year he returned to Italy, where he made copies of Renaissance masterpieces in Florence and Venice. In 1836 he received a State commission to paint Henry IV Brought back to the Louvre after his Assassination (1836; Versailles, Ch?teau), which was destined for the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre.

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