Jean-Jacques Henner
French, 1829-1905
Landscape with a Pond
INV-1825
Jean-Jacques Henner
French, 1829-1905c. 1879
Landscape with a Pond
Jean-Jacques Henner French, 1829-1905 →chalkpaper
Date
c. 1879
Medium
Black chalk on ivory laid paper laid down on blue laid paper partially discolored to tan
Dimensions
9.5 × 15.3 cm (3 3/4 × 6 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Julius Lewis Endowment
“Jean-Jacques Henner is as little known today as he was famous during his lifetime,” quipped Rodolphe Rapetti in his 2003 monograph on the artist. Winning the Prix de Rome in 1858, Henner found inspiration in the chiaroscuro (strong contrasts of light and dark) and sfumato (smoky or hazy effects) of Caravaggio’s art. When he returned to his native Alsace in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, his works became even dreamier and more deeply infused with melancholy.
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