henri-françois riesener (1767 - 1828)
Henri-François Riesener was a French painter of German origin, a master of ceremonial secular portraiture, a characteristic representative of Neoclassicism and early Romanticism, the creator of the portraits of Napoleon and Alexander I. Henri-François Riesener was the son of the cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) and father of the Romantic painter Leon Riesener (1808-1878).
Henri-François Riesener was a French painter of German origin, a master of ceremonial secular portraiture, a characteristic representative of Neoclassicism and early Romanticism, the creator of the portraits of Napoleon and Alexander I. Henri-François Riesener was the son of the cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) and father of the Romantic painter Leon Riesener (1808-1878).
