Nicolas-Auguste Hesse

Nicolas-Auguste Hesse (28 August 1795 – 14 June 1869) was a French painter and lithographer.

[1] He produced historical, mythological, religious and allegorical works along with portraits, wall paintings and designs for stained glass windows.

He studied under his brother Henri Joseph Hesse and under baron Antoine-Jean Gros.

He also produced The Death of Adonis, a stained glass window for the église Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot (1843), The Virgin fainting] (1845), Jacob wrestling with the angel (cathédrale d'Avranches, 1851) and Clytie dying (musée de Picardie à Amiens, 1853).

He was finally made a member of the Institut, where he succeeded Eugène Delacroix in 1863.