François-Léon Benouville
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François-Léon Benouville (Paris
Paris
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, March 30, 1821 - February 16, 1859) was a French
France
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painter
Painting
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Léon Benouville first studied with his elder brother Jean-Achille Benouville
Jean-Achille Benouville
Jean-Achille Benouville was a French landscape painter of the academic painting school, known for his Italian landscapes. François-Léon Benouville was his younger brother.-Gallery:...
(1815-1891) in the studio of François-Edouard Picot
François-Édouard Picot
François-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...
before he transferred to Ecole des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...
in 1837. Like his brother he received the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
in 1845. In Rome, as a Prix de Rome pensionary at the Villa Medici
Villa Medici
The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...
. His works produced in Rome are influenced by early Christianity and often show representations of antiquity.