Unsigned - Henner, Jean Jaques (attributed), 1829 Bernweiler, Alsace - 1905 Paris, French painter of academic realism, drawing lessons with Charles Goutzwiller (1810-1900) in Altkirch, later he moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg to study painting in the studio of Gabriel-Christophe Guérin (1790-1846), In 1846 he moved to Paris and became a pupil of Michel-Martin Drolling at the École des Beaux-Arts there, and from 1851 of François-Édouard Picot, during which time he worked mainly on portraits, including those of his family and other people from his home region of Alsace, encouraged by his teachers, Henner took part in an exhibition at the Académie Française in 1858, with his work 'Adam and Eve find the body of Abel' he won the Prix de Rome, which included a study visit to the Villa Medici in Rome, Henner remained in Italy until 1865 and devoted himself primarily to studying the works of Titian and Correggio, During this time, he specialized in the depiction of nude female figures in a landscape setting, whose outlines are painted blurred in semi-darkness or twilight. After his return to Paris, Henner returned to portrait painting alongside these mostly mythological female figures. His lifelike painting style made these portraits very popular with the fin de siècle public, and many of his works can be seen today in the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris. One of his most famous works is the portrait of an Alsatian woman in traditional costume L'Alsace, which he painted in 1871 for a group of industrialist wives from Thann, who gave it to Léon Gambetta, the painting symbolizes the lost Alsace and became very popular in the Third Republic, "Lying Nude", oil/canvas, elongated, lying female nude on a red, velvet-like cloth, her brunette hair is wreathed with leaves and flowers, unsigned, inscribed on the reverse of the stretcher and inscribed on the old adhesive label, craquelure, partial loss of colour, canvas partially damaged, approx. 66x113cm, frame, ca. 84x135cm