Jean-Achille Benouville

Jean- Achille Benouville ( born July 15, 1815 in Paris, † February 8, 1891 ) was a French painter.

Jean- Achille Benouville was a pupil of the history painter François -Edouard Picot, 1837 before he enrolled at the École des Beaux -Arts. Like his brother Léon Benouville (1821-1859) in 1845, he received the Prix de Rome. Since 1834 he exhibited his work regularly at the Paris Salon. While his early landscape paintings are influenced by motives of the Paris area rather by Camille Corot, are his later Italian landscapes in the tradition of Claude Lorrain.

His son Pierre -Louis -Alfred Benouville (1842-1889) was an important architect.

His paintings are now in the possession of the Musée d' Orsay, the Musée de Beaux -Arts in Rennes and the American Museum Cleveland Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the New York Dahesh Museum. The Louvre has many of his prints.

On the art market are paid up to 38,000 dollars for his oil paintings.

Gallery

Villa Medici, Rome

Italian Landscape

View of the Colosseum from the Palatine Hill