Ignace François Bonhomme

1809-1881 French

Pioneered urban and industrial scenes

Ignace-François Bonhommé was a French painter and lithographer. A student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he trained in the workshops of Guillaume Guillon Lethière, Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche. François Bohommé abandoned history painting and classical themes to turn to the spectacle of urban environments. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1833 . In 1836, he began a series of drawings, watercolors, then engravings representing commemorative events in Paris or in the provinces; we also owe him a series of drawings on monuments - facades and interiors of churches, in particular the cathedral of Amiens. The following year, he began a series of drawings and paintings on the forges of Abainville (Meuse).