of opinion in his favour took place at the exhibition of 1851; his powers as draughtsman and the occasional merits of his composition were recognized, and toleration extended even to his colour. The Second Empire saw Heim's popularity resurrect. He was appointed President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1853 and had a great success at the World Exhibition of 1855 with The Victories of Judas Macabaeus and The Battle of Rocroy. Heim was awarded the great gold medal, and in 1855—having sent to the Salon no less than sixteen portraits, amongst which may be cited those of Cuvier, Geoffroy de St Hilaire, and Madame Hersent he was made officer of the legion of honour. In 1859 he again exhibited a curious collection of portraits, sixty-four members of the Institute arranged in groups of four. The poet Baudelaire admired his sketches for their "marvellous understanding of the way humans pull faces". Besides the paintings already mentioned, there is to be seen in Nôtre Dame de Lorette (Paris) a work executed on the spot; and the museum of Strassburg contains an excellent example of his easel pictures, the subject of which is a Shepherd Drinking from a Spring. He also decorated the Palais Bourbon and the Hotel de Lassay. Jean-Pierre Cuzin, curator of paintings in the Louvre, has called Heim "perhaps the last representative in France of what could be called traditional painting and, as such, somewhat out of place in the middle of the nineteenth century." Baudelaire called him "an eminent, distinguished artist, a searcher who misses being a fine genius by only a millimetre or a milligram of anything." The writer Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who was himself a prisoner (1983–1988), having been kidnapped while working as a journalist in Lebanon has praised Heim's work and in particular a work of 1840 in the gallery at Semur-en-Auxois called The Prisoner'', of which he said: "The drawing is superb, and the pose conveys the anguish of silent suffering—and the very Caravaggesque sense of light and setting cannot fail to make the viewer curious." References 1787 births 1865 deaths Members of the Académie des beaux-arts People from Belfort 19th-century French painters French male painters Prix de Rome for painting Officiers of the Légion d'honneur 19th-century French male artists