Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit

Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit (7 March 1784 – 7 January 1862) was a French oil painter, primarily of portraits and historical scenes.

[1][2] Jean Baptiste Tardieu engraved several of her works.

[1][2] She studied under Charles Meynier and possibly her husband, Louis Hersent.[when?]

[3] Her husband is also notable for his portrait and history paintings.

[2] Hersent herself took on female pupils, among them the porcelain painter Marie Virginie Boquet[3] and portrait painter Louise Adélaïde Desnos.

Sketch of Hersent by François Joseph Heim for his large group portrait of artists featuring Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre , 1827, Louvre
Portrait of Louise Hersent (1852) by her husband, Louis Hersent
Hersent depicted in François Joseph Heim 's 1827 painting, Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824