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1815 France - 1891. Known for: Landscape painting.
Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter, best known for his Italian landscapes. Along with his younger brother François Léon, he completed his apprenticeship first in the workshop of... Read full biography
Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter, best known for his Italian landscapes. Along with his younger brother François Léon, he completed his apprenticeship first in the workshop of François-Édouard Picot and then in that of Léon Cogniet. He began his career by painting various... Read full biography
Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter, best known for his Italian landscapes. Along with his younger brother François Léon, he completed his apprenticeship first in the workshop of François-Édouard Picot and then in that of Léon Cogniet. He began his career by painting various landscapes around Paris, Compiègne and Fontainebleau, until he exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1834. He then enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the second prize in Rome, in the... Read full biography
Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter, best known for his Italian landscapes. Along with his younger brother François Léon, he completed his apprenticeship first in the workshop of François-Édouard Picot and then in that of Léon Cogniet. He began his career by painting various landscapes around Paris, Compiègne and Fontainebleau, until he exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1834. He then enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the second prize in Rome, in the category of historical landscape. In the following years, he traveled three times to Italy, once in the company of his friend and mentor Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, with whom he shared his Roman studio in 1843. In 1845, he won the Prix de Rome with... Read full biography
Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter, best known for his Italian landscapes. Along with his younger brother François Léon, he completed his apprenticeship first in the workshop of François-Édouard Picot and then in that of Léon Cogniet. He began his career by painting various landscapes around Paris, Compiègne and Fontainebleau, until he exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1834. He then enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won the second prize in Rome, in the category of historical landscape. In the following years, he traveled three times to Italy, once in the company of his friend and mentor Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, with whom he shared his Roman studio in 1843. In 1845, he won the Prix de Rome with the painting "Ulysses and Nausicaa". He then went to Rome, where he stayed for three years at the Villa Medicis guesthouse... Read full biography
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- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student