Constant Mongé-Misbach
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Constant Mongé-Misbach or Constant Misbach (5 January 1806 – 18 January 1871[1]) was a French painter, specialising in history painting. He died unmarried without issue and so the Misbach line of artists died out with him, though he is well known for donating two studies by his tutor Jean Bonvoisin to the Louvre Museum (St Sebastian, assigned to Clermont-Ferrand in 1876, and Paris as a Shepherd, assigned to Avranches in 1876 but destroyed during the Second World War), followed by sixteen Old Master paintings on his death, including Dirk Bouts' Lamentation of Christ (the Louvre's first acquisition after the Second French Empire).
