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Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (born Strasbourg, 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 Dav ...

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 Delaroche, and afterwards served on the Commission for Historical Monuments. He died at Florence in 1879. He was largely engaged ...

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

Empress Eugénie An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife ( empress consort), mother (empr ...

beside her Villa Eugénie in Biarritz. In 1876 he was commissioned to execute frescoes in the

Strasbourg Cathedral Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or ''Cathédrale de Strasbourg'', german: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg or ''Straßburger Münster''), also known as Strasbourg ...

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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