Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit

Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit (7 March 1784 – 7 January 1862) was a French oil painter, primarily of portraits and historical scenes.^[1]

Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit
1835 portrait of Hersent by Louise Adélaïde Desnos, one of her students
Born	Louise Marie Jeanne Mauduit (1784-03-07)7 March 1784 Paris
Died	7 January 1862(1862-01-07) (aged 77) Paris
Nationality	French
Spouse	Louis Hersent

Sketch of Hersent by François Joseph Heim for his large group portrait of artists featuring Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre, 1827, Louvre

From 1810 to 1824, her works were exhibited at the Paris Salon, and she received two first-class medals at the Salon of 1817 and Salon of 1819.^[1][2] Jean Baptiste Tardieu engraved several of her works.^[1][2]

Portrait of Louise Hersent (1852) by her husband, Louis Hersent

Biography

Hersent depicted in François Joseph Heim's 1827 painting, Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824

Louise Marie-Jeanne Mauduit was born in Paris on 7 March 1784 to an unknown mother and Antoine-René Mauduit, an architect and mathematician.^[1]

In 1810, her works^[which?] were first displayed at the Paris Salon, and would be displayed until 1824. Her artworks^[which?] obtained first-class medals in 1817 and 1819.^[1][2]

She studied under Charles Meynier and possibly her husband, Louis Hersent.^[when?]

In 1821, she married the painter Louis Hersent.^[3] Her husband is also notable for his portrait and history paintings.^[2]

Hersent herself took on female pupils, among them the porcelain painter Marie Virginie Boquet^[3] and portrait painter Louise Adélaïde Desnos.

Gallery

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  Pauline Bonaparte, 1806
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  Nymph, c. 1810
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  Portrait of an anonymous woman, 1812
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  Portrait of a woman holding a book, 1814.
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  The Good Mother, 1814
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  Madame de Fumel, 1816; possibly prize winner of the 1819 Paris Salon
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  Elijah Resuscitating the Son of the Widow of Sarepta, 1819; possibly prize winner of the 1819 Paris Salon
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  Portrait of a Boy in Green, 1819
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  Portrait of a young woman leaning on a meridienne, 1828
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  Portrait of Monsieur Arachequesne, 1830
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  Woman in a blue dress, 1831
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  Peter I of Russia and Louis XV of France, (copy after Louise Hersent)