Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Hesse - Funerary Honours Rendered to Titian, Who Died in Venice during the Plague of 1576 [c.1833]

Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Hesse - Funerary Honours Rendered to Titian, Who Died in Venice during the Plague of 1576 [c.1833], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Hesse (Paris, September 30, 1806 - Paris, August 7, 1879) was a French painter. He entered the studio of Jean-Victor Bertin in 1820, enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts the following year. He then travelled in France, visiting the Midi in 1825. In 1830 he visited first Rome, where he met Horace Vernet, Director of the Academie Francaise, and then Venice. In 1833 he exhibited Funeral Honours Rendered to Titian after his Death at Venice during the Plague of 1576 at the Salon, where he won a first-class medal.

This painting is a preparatory sketch for the painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

[Philadelphia Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 40 x 59.1 cm]