Identity:
Charles Hessele was a print dealer in Paris.
Life:
Hessele was active between 1901 and 1914. He specialised in modern prints first at 13 rue Laffitte, then 52 rue Laffitte, then 16 rue Balzac. His stock was confiscated as that of an enemy alien in the 1914-18 war and sold in 1919.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980; Lugt, Frits, Les marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes: marques estampillèes et écrites de collections particulières et publiques; marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs; etc..., Amsterdam, 1921, no. 554.