Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry
French academic history painter
François Victor Eloi Biennourry is a French painter Son of Etienne Pierre Victor Biennourry and Marguerite Clémence Pellet, François Victor Eloi Biennourry is a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling . Painter of history, he received many public commissions under the Second Empire, for the Tuileries Palace in Paris (the Empress' salons, the Emperor's office), for the Louvre Palace and for many Parisian churches. At the same time, he produced official portraits, including that of Charlemagne de Maupas, Minister of General Police, a compatriot from Champagne. He died at his home in Paris at 19, quai Saint-Michel in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and is buried in the same city at the Montparnasse cemetery (17th Division).
Artworks by this artist (8 total)
- L’Empire couronnant les arts
- Porta San Lorenzo, Rome mid-19th century
- Standing Youth Turned to the Right, Pulling a Piece of Drapery over His Left Arm 1854
- Study of the Soldier Holding the Crown of Thorns
- The Mocking of Christ 1852
- A Woman Distributing Bread from a Basket 1850[-]53
- Study of a Soldier 1851[-]52
- Standing Soldier; Study for the Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul in the Church of Saint-Séverin, Paris 1851[-]52