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Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (born

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

, 26 June 1814; died Paris, 17 May 1885) was a French painter.

Biography

Louis Steinheil studied with

Henri Decaisne Henri Decaisne (27 January 1799 – 17 October 1852) was a Belgian historical and portrait painter. Biography Decaisne was born at Brussels in 1799. As early as 1814 he began to study painting under François, and in 1818 upon the advice of Davi ...

and painted in nearly every medium, but gave special attention to glass painting and church decoration. Among his works are ''Saint Philomela'' (1841); ''Mother'' (1847), Nantes Museum. He and

Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle, a French decorative painter and architect, was born in Paris in 1818. He studied under Hippolyte Delaroche, Delaroche, and afterwards served on the Commission for Historical Monuments. He died at Florence in 1879. He w ...

were commissioned to paint the chapel of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, consecrated in September 1865, which was built for the Empress Eugénie beside her

Villa Eugénie A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became sm ...

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. In 1876 he was commissioned to execute

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es in the Strasbourg Cathedral.

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* * 1814 births 1885 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Painters from Alsace 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub