Louis Godefroy Jadin (June 30, 1805, Paris - 1882, Paris) was a French painter specializing in animals and landscapes, especially known for having painted the hunts of Napoleon III and the dogs of the high society of the Second Empire. His father was the composer Louis-Emmanuel Jadin. In painting and engraving, a student of Louis Hersent, of Abel de Pujol, of Paul Huet, of Richard Parkes Bonington and of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, he exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1831. A close… Read more...