Jean-Achille Benouville
Jean-Achille Benouville (born July 15, 1815 in Paris , † February 8, 1891 there ) was a French painter .
Life
Jean-Achille Benouville was initially a student of the history painter François-Édouard Picot before enrolling at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1837 . Like his brother Léon Benouville (1821-1859), he received the Prix de Rome in 1845 . He has been exhibiting his work regularly in the Paris Salon since 1834 . From 1838 he traveled several times to Italy and in 1843 lived for a few months in Rome, where he worked with Camille Corot . In 1863 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . Following a four-year scholarship at the Villa Medici, he stayed in Rome again until 1871 and finally returned to Paris. He later traveled to southern France and in 1875 to the Netherlands.
Benouville was primarily a landscape painter, but also represented people from the Italian rural population in his works. While his early landscapes with motifs from the Paris area are more influenced by Camille Corot, his later Italian landscapes are in the tradition of Claude Lorrain . In addition to the oil paintings, his gouaches and watercolors (from 1844) are also important. He rarely made etchings and lithographs.
His sons Pierre Benouville (1852-1889) and Léon Benouville (1860-1903) were important architects.
His paintings are now in the possession of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , the Musée de Beaux-Arts in Rennes as well as the American museums Cleveland Museum of Art , Dallas Museum of Art , the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the New York Dahesh Museum . The Louvre owns many of his prints.
In the art market, up to $ 38,000 is paid for his oil paintings.
photos
capri
Villa Medici, Rome
Italian landscape
View of the Colosseum from the Palatine Hill
literature
- Marie-Madeleine Aubrun: Achille Benouville: 1815–1891; catalog raisonné de l'œuvre . Paris 1986
- Elmar Stolpe: Benouville, Jean-Achille . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , pp. 139 f.
- Gustave Geffroy : Benouville, Jean Achille . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 340 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Jean-Achille Benouville on artcyclopedia (English)
- Graphic works in the Louvre database (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from a leading auction house , accessed on May 12, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benouville, Jean-Achille |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benouville, Achille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1891 |
| Place of death | Paris |