HENNER, JEAN JACQUES (1829-1905), French painter, was born on March 5, 1829, at Bernweiler (Alsace), the son of a peasant. He first studied at Altkirch in 1841. In 1844 he worked at Strasbourg under Gabriel Guerin, and in 1846 he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under M. Drolling. He returned to his native place for two years in 1855 to paint portraits, a col lection of which are now at the Sundgau Museum at Altkirch. In 1857 he joined the studio of Picot in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of "Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel" (1858). At Rome he was guided by Flandrin, and, among other works, painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1863 a "Bather Asleep," and sub sequently contributed more or less regularly until 1903. He died in Paris on July 23, 1905. He is best known for his paintings of nude figures posed in ideal landscape enveloped in a golden clare obscure suggestive of Correggio. He also painted a number of portraits. A self portrait is in the Uffizi at Florence. There are nine pictures by him in the Luxembourg gallery and 31 in the Palais des Beaux Arts (Salle Henner). In 1924 the Henner museum, comprising about 200 paintings, drawings and litho graphs, bequeathed by the artist's nephew, was inaugurated in the Avenue de Villiers in Paris.