Michel Honoré Bounieu

Michel Honoré Bounieu, a French painter of historical and genre subjects, and engraver in mezzotint, was born at Marseilles in 1740. He was a pupil of Pierre, and became a member of the Academy at Paris in 1767. He was keeper of the prints at the Bibliothèque Nationale from 1792 to 1794, and for the next twenty years professor of drawing at the École des Ponts-et-Chaussées. He exhibited many pictures at the Salon, and at his own studio those of 'Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise,' and 'Bathsheba,' the former of which he himself engraved. The Bordeaux Museum has a 'Head of a Woman,' and 'Baigneuses' by him. He died in Paris in 1814, leaving a daughter, Emilie Bounieu, afterwards Madame Raveau, who inherited her father's talent, and exhibited historical subjects and portraits from 1800 to 1819.

Bounieu engraved about fifteen subjects from his own designs, among which are the following:

• Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise.
• The Magdalen.
• Love led by Folly.
• The Punishment of a Vestal.
• The Birth of Henry IV; an allegory.
• The Deluge.
• The Odalisque.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "BOUNIEU, Michel Honoré". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]