Louis Hersent

Louis Hersent was an artist whose documented career spanned the final years of the eighteenth century into the early decades of the nineteenth, active between 1796 and 1820. The works represented in contemporary museum collections consist primarily of prints, supplemented by at least one painting.

Hersent’s output covers both mythological and genre subjects. His preserved works include the classical subject of Orpheus and Eurydice alongside specific portraiture like Sophie Crouzet, and narrative scenes such as The Fiancée of the King of Garbe, The Hermit, and The Men from Rheims.

This body of documented work, including six prints and one painting, is held in established American institutions, most notably the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The presence of these works in major collections confirms their historical and artistic value. Today, many of these Louis Hersent prints and related compositions are available as museum-quality, high-quality prints due to their status in the public domain.