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Hesse in 1865
Nicolas-Auguste Hesse (28 August 1795, Paris – 14 June 1869, Paris) was a French painter and lithographer.[1] He produced historical, mythological, religious and allegorical works along with portraits, wall paintings and designs for stained glass windows.
He first exhibited at the 1824 Salon and from then on became one of the most noted painters of the era. In 1827 he exhibited Foundation of the Collège de Sorbonne around the year 1256 at the Salon - it had been commissioned for the church of the Sorbonne. In 1838 he exhibited Jesus Christ in the Sepulchre (cathédrale de Périgueux) and General Sitting of the Estates General on 23rd June 1789 (musée d'Amiens).
He also produced The Death of Adonis, a stained glass window for the église Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot (1843), The Virgin fainting] (1845), Jacob wrestling with the angel (cathédrale d'Avranches, 1851) and Clytie dying (musée de Picardie à Amiens, 1853). He won a first class medal in 1838 and in 1840 was decorated. He was finally made a member of the Institut, where he succeeded Eugène Delacroix in 1863.
Works
Amiens : Sitting of the Estates General, Clytie dying.
(in French) Dictionnaire Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 7, éditions Gründ, janvier 1999, 13440 p. (ISBN2700030176), p. 14
(in French) Gérald Schurr, Valeurs de demain. Les petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920, vol. 7, éditions de l'Amateur. Paris, 1982, 1120 p. (ISBN2859173781)
