Louis Hersent

Place: Paris

Born: 1784

Death: 1862

Biography:

Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit (1784 – 1862), was a 19th-century French painter. She was born in Paris as the daughter of a mathematician. She married the painter Louis Hersent in 1821. Like her husband, she is known as a portrait and history painter, and she took on female pupils, among whom was the porcelain painter Marie Virginie Boquet. Sh...