François-Léon Benouville
The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (Musée Fabre)
François-Léon Benouville (Paris 30 March 1821 – 16 February 1859 Paris) was a French painter.
Léon Benouville first studied with his elder brother Jean-Achille Benouville (1815–1891) in the studio of François-Edouard Picot before he transferred to École des Beaux-Arts in 1837. Like his brother he received the Prix de Rome in 1845. In Rome, as a Prix de Rome pensionary at the Villa Medici. His works produced in Rome are influenced by early Christianity and often show representations of antiquity.
External links
Media related to Léon Benouville at Wikimedia Commons
- François-Léon Benouville on Artcyclopedia
- Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Benouville (see index)
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