Jean-Achille Benouville

Jean-Achille Benouville (15 July 1815 – 8 February 1891) was a French landscape painter known for his views of Italy.

Biography 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, Italia 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. 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.

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.

Selected paintings