Louis Émile Adan, born and died in Paris was a French painter and illustrator. Louis Adan is born on March 26 , 1839 in the 2nd oldest district of Paris . He is the son of the painter Hippolyte Benjamin Adan (Paris 1797 – Courbevoie 1876) – a student of Paul Delaroche – and Émilie Delarémanichère (Paris 1813 – Courbevoie 1885). The November 26 , 1867 , he married Marion Adèle Binoche ( New Orleans 1843 – Paris 1923), a cousin by marriage, daughter of rentiers, at the 10th arrondissement of Paris . He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts as a pupil of François – Édouard Picot and Alexandre Cabanel. His workshop is located at 75 rue de Courcelles . During his long career, he painted landscapes , genre scenes , still lifes and watercolors . He also illustrates several editions (including Flaubert’s “Un Coeur mere”, “Fables” by La Fontaine and Florian , “Œuvres complètes” by Alphonse Daudet ). In 1870 , he executed a monumental composition 2 representing the Trinity in Glory , set up in the choir of the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Church in Courbevoie in 1892. This is his only known religious work. From 1863 until his death, he exhibited at all salons . He was knighted the Legion of Honor in 1892 . He dies, almost centenarian, the February 5 , 1937 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . Two of his paternal cousins are also painters: Louis Félix Adan (Paris 1825 – 1892) and Eugène Xavier Adan (Paris 1826 – 1884). His sister Marie Adan (Paris 1846 – 1922) married on April 11, 1872 in Courbevoie the painter Alexis Douillard ( Nantes 1835 – Meudon 1905).