Get a Henner Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Henner drawing.

For all your Henner artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Henner Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Henner painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Henner and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Henner experts and Henner certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Henner artworks.

Our Henner paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Henner certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Henner painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Henner paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Henner collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Jean-Jacques Henner art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests , full art authentications. We will help you sell your Jean-Jacques Henner or we will sell it for you.

Jean-Jacques Henner was born in Alsace, France, and studied in Strasbourg, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Picot and Drolling. During this time, he excelled and was particularly interested in portraiture. He would typically sign his paintings “Henner,” sometimes on the front, and sometimes on the back of his canvas. During frequent trips home, Henner would use his family and friends as his subjects, and had a particular attraction to painting women with red hair. Painting redheads and nudes with red hair would become his calling card, and gained him great notoriety in his time.

Henner won the Prix de Rome in 1848 for his painting of “Adam and Eve Finding the Body of Abel.” Due to this win, Henner was able to study in Rome until 1859, where he improved on his chiaroscuro method by studying the old masters. After this point, Henner’s paintings would increasingly have religious or mythological themes.

Although widely known for his paintings of nymphs and nudes in idealized landscapes, Henner was still sought after for creating portraits. One of his most famous is of fellow painter Carolus Duran.

In 1873 Henner was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, and in 1900 he won the Grand Prix in Paris. Toward the end of his career, he also had a number of students under his instruction, most notable Louise Abemma.

During his career, Henner received much notoriety, however, towards the end of his life, his popularity was on the decline. Despite the fact that Henner may not be a household name, his paintings are still housed in museums worldwide. He left behind a legacy of creating beautiful paintings of ethereal young women, and though his landscapes and still life paintings were few, there are certainly a few still in existence today. Still wondering about a family portrait or sensuous nude paintings in your home? Contact us—it may be by Jean-Jacques Henner.