Jean Benner

Jean Benner studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Works named in the authority record are Jeune Fille de Capri and Salomé. Work by Jean Benner is recorded in the collections of Nantes Museum of Arts, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Château de Nemours, musée Petiet de Limoux and Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse. Distinctions recorded are Legion of Honour.

• Name — Jean Benner • Born — 28 March 1836 • Birthplace — Mulhouse, France • Died — 28 October 1906 • Place of death — Paris, France • Resting Place — Père Lachaise Cemetery • Notable Works — L'Extase Salomé • Style — Academic art

• Illustration — Emmanuel and Jean Benner, 1883, National and University Library of Strasbourg Twins Jean and Emmanuel Benner were born in March 1836 in Mulhouse, Alsace, France to Jean Benner-Fries.

The Benner brothers were first designers at Mulhouse mills and factories. By 30 years of age, Jean was able to study art with Léon Bonnat, Eck and Jean-Jacques Henner and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1868. In 1881 he won his first medal there for this painting Le Repos. He painted still-life, portrait and genre paintings, including After a Storm at Capri (1872), Trappist in Prayer (1875), Petite Falle de Capri, Flowers and Fruits (1868), and Reverie. He also painted in the Isle of Capri, which was an artist colony at that time, its residents included Frederic Leighton, Walter McLaren, John Singer Sargent, Edouard Alexandre Sain, and Sophie Gengembre Anderson. Benner died in 1906 in Paris.

• A house in Capri, 1881, Fine Arts Museum, Pau • Women of Capri, 1882, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse. Remarkable for its heroic size, quite unusual for a genre painting: 270 cm by 171 cm. • Briseis weeping over the body of Patroclus, 1878, château-musée, Nemours • Ecstasy, c. 1896, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art • Girl in Capri, 1906, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes • Hollyhocks, Musée d'art et d'archéologie, Senlis • Les Pêcheurs, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre • Portrait of Jean-Jacques Henner, 1899, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse • Portrait of Emmanuel Benner, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes • Salomé, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes • To France, always, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse

• Illustration — The Wreck, or The Italian, 1879, Musée Petiet de Limoux • Illustration — Salomé, ca. 1899, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes • Illustration — Portrait of Jean-Jacques Henner, 1899 • Illustration — Girl in Capri, 1906, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes • Illustration — A dark corner in Capri • Illustration — Ecstasy, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art • Illustration — To France, always • Illustration — Study of Flowers, oil on canvas, Laing Art Gallery • Illustration — Little girl, Museum of Fine Arts, Reims