Emmanuel Benner

The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are Saint Jérôme. Work by Emmanuel Benner is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Château de Nemours, musée Petiet de Limoux, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse and Unterlinden Museum.

• Name — Emmanuel Benner • Born — 28 March 1836 • Birthplace — Mulhouse, France • Died — 23 February 1896 • Place of death — Nantes, France • Resting Place — Père Lachaise Cemetery • Known for — Nude paintings • Notable Works — Mary Magdalene in the Desert Lakeside Dwelling • Style — Academic art

Emmanuel Benner was born in Mulhouse. He studied under his father, and under Jean-Jacques Eck (1812–1887) at the School for industrial design (école de dessin industriel) of Mulhouse, then in Paris with Henner and with Léon Bonnat. He started exhibiting paintings at the Salon de Paris in 1867 and would do so regularly until his death. The Benner twins also collaborated as designers with their other fellow Alsatian, ceramist and potter Théodore Deck. Their styles being very similar, they occasionally worked together on a painting, such as the Allégorie de l’Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1878, filled with beautiful women, one of their favourite subjects. Benner died in 1896 in Nantes. He is buried with his brother and his nephew in the family tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.

• Illustration — Lakeside Dwelling (1878, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse) • Illustration — Nude Woman by a River (1884, private collection) • Illustration — Mary Magdalene in the Desert (1886, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) • Illustration — Nudes in the Woods (undated, private collection) • Illustration — At the Water's Edge (1887, private collection) • Illustration — A Family in the Stone Age (1892, Unterlinden Museum) • Illustration — The Loss of Alsace–Lorraine (1895, private collection) • Illustration — Young Woman in a Costume from Capri (undated, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse) • Illustration — Saint Jerome (undated, Musée d'Orsay) • Illustration — Young Girl on a Bed of Heather (undated, Château de Nemours)

His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jean Benner-Fries.

Benner's work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, the Walters Art Museum, the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Unterlinden Museum, the Musée d'Orsay, among others.