Jean-Achille Benouville
French painter of Italian landscapes
Jean-Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter known for his views of Italy. He was born in Paris. Together with his younger brother, François-Léon, he was apprenticed to François-Édouard Picot and, later, to Léon Cogniet. He painted numerous landscapes in the vicinity of Paris, Compiègne and Fontainebleau. In 1834, he had his first exhibition at the Salon. Three years later, he was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. In 1845, he was awarded the Prix de Rome for historic landscape painting for his work Ulysses and Nausicaa. As a result, he was able to make three trips to Italy; one in the company of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, with whom he shared a studio in Rome. After a stay of three years at the Villa Médicis, he decided to remain in Italy, although he continued to display his works at exhibitions in Paris. He was married in 1851 and had two sons: Pierre Louis [fr] and Léon [fr], who both became architects. In 1863, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor. He returned to France following his wife's death and remarried in 1871. He travelled frequently, to Italy, the Pyrenees and the Netherlands, until his death in Paris in 1891. Maupassant dedicated his story, Mon oncle Jules (1883), to Benouville.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Léon Cogniet Master
- François-Léon Benouville Student
- Harald Jerichau Student
Fellow student
Parent child
- Pierre Louis Child
Artworks by this artist (71 total)
- Scène religieuse 19th century
- Les cascatelles de Tivoli
- Paysage de bord de mer 19th century
- Etude d’homme nu 19th century
- Vache et tête de vache 19th century
- Femme drapée debout de trois-quart à gauche 19th century
- Draperie. 19th century
- Draperie 19th century
- Paysage avec colline 19th century
- Paysage avec femme et enfant 19th century
- Paysage avec un ermite 19th century
- Etude pour deux figures assises 19th century
- Paysage (figures sous des arbres) 1843
- Paysage (torrent) 19th century
- Feuillage. 19th century
- Tête de femme de trois quarts à gauche 19th century
- Paysage rocheux avec un personnage 19th century
- Tête d’homme de face (plâtre) 19th century
- Landscape with Rider on White Horse 1846
- Paysage (La Roche-Guyon) 19th century