Pierre-Justin Ouvrié

Pierre Justin Ouvrié or Ouvrié (19 January 1806 – 22 October 1879) was a French painter and lithographer. He was known as Justin Ouvrié from 1852 onwards.

Life Born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Justin Ouvrié was a student of baron Taylor and Abel de Pujol at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 onwards with views of towns and monuments, sometimes as historical or picturesque scenes.

He was very successful under the July Monarchy, winning a 2nd class medal at the 1831 Salon, a 1st class medal at the 1843 Salon and a 3rd class medal at the 1855 Exposition Universelle as well as being made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1854. He was a professor at the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur in Saint-Denis.

He later became blind, after which the paintings in his studio were sold off at the hôtel Drouot on 21 December 1874. Moving to Maisons-Laffitte, he died at Sotteville-lès-Rouen. His pupils included Jean-Joseph Bellel and Paul Chardin.

Salon works As Pierre Justin Ouvrié Landscape - 1831 Grand Canal, Venice, View of the House of Incurables in Naples, View of the Mont-Saint-Bernard Hospice, View at Landernau (Brittany), The Pont de Pontoise - 1833 View of Piazza Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice - 1834 Interior of the Lorenzkirche, Nuremberg, View of the Mont-d'Or Valley (Auvergne), The Aigues-Mortes Lighthouse, Valtin Valley - 1835 View of the château in Twickenham [High Shot House] near Richmond, lived in by the king [Louis-Philippe of the French] during his stay in England, View of Rouen from Le Cours, San Pietro Church in Genoa, View at Lerici, near La Spezzi, Italy, View of Rouen from the petite chaussée - 1836 Santa Lucia Quay in Naples, View of Rouen from the petite chaussée, The Place de Royat near Clermont-Ferrand, Chartres Cathedral from place des Eparts - 1837 View of Château de Cossigny (Seine-et-Marne), View in the parc de Cossigny - 1838 The Courtyard of Heidelberg Castle (Grand Duchy of Baden), View of Noël Saint-Martin Church (Oise), View at Chartres, View of the Lorenzer Platz in Nuremberg - 1839 Oval Courtyard at the château de Fontainebleau, arrival of Queen Christine, View of the village of Ablon-sur-Seine - 1840 The French Army Marching on Mascara after a sketch by M. Siméon Fort, View of the Castle and Town of Heidelberg, View of Augsburg - 1841 Château de Fontainebleau, view from the jardin anglais, View of the église de la Roche, near Landernau (Finistère), Church and Calvary at Plougastel-Saint-Germain, near Quimper, View of Taverny, vallée de Montmorency - 1842 View of château de Chenonceaux on the Cher, Séricourt, near la Ferté-sous-Jouarre The Palais de Saint-Cloud, view from the park - 1843 View of the château de Pau and Part of the Town of Pau, from the park - 1844 View of les Eaux-Bonnes (Basses-Pyrénées), Châlet de Séricourt (Seine-et-Marne), View of the Grand Canal in Venice - 1845 View of the château d'Azay-le-Rideau (Indre-et-Loire), Château d'Ussé (Indre-et-Loire), Memory of Dinan (Côtes-du-Nord), Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice - 1846 View of the Main Square and Cloth Hall in Ypres (Belgium), View at Amboise - 1847 Place de la Halle à Bruges (Belgique), Vue prise à Honfleur (Calvados), Le Château de Châteaudun, vue prise des bords de Loir - 1848 View of rue Flamande in Bruges, View of Saint-Sébastien in Bruges, The Pont Neuf in Chartres - 1849 Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Lambeth Palace in London, The Béguinage in Bruges, View of Rouen, taken from Le Cours - 1850

As Justin Ouvrié View of Somerset House and Saint Paul's Cathedral, London (United Kingdom) - 1852 (also re-exhibited in 1855) Windsor Castle (United Kingdom), The Church at Hastings (United Kingdom) - 1852 View of Amsterdam - 1853 (also re-exhibited in 1855) Banks of the Rhine, Saint-Goars and Rheinfelds, Banks of the Rhine, Oberwesel, Castle and City of Heidelberg, Santa Lucia Quay in Naples - 1855 Trarbach-sur-Moselle (Rhenish Prussia), Rolandsech and Drackenfels on the Rhine, Boppart, near Koblenz (Prussia), Entrance to The Hague, through the Ryswick Canal (Netherlands) - 1857 View of Rotterdam - 1859 Memory of the Banks of the Rhine between Koblenz and Mainz, Mont Blanc and the Chaumont Valley, View of Antwerp, Memory of Italy, road from Ancona to Bologna, The Moselle near Bern-Castel (Rhenish Prussia) - 1861 View of Salzburg (Austria), The Walter Scott Monument, Calton Hill and Canongate in Edinburgh, The Hereengracht in Amsterdam - 1863 Le Château d'Anet (Eure-et-Loir), Château de Villepinte (Seine-et-Oise), au Salon de 1864 Edinburgh from Calton Hill - 1865 (also re-exhibited 1867) Château de Pierrefonds in 1864 - 1865 City and Castle of Heidelberg, Freiburg Cathedral in Brisgau - 1866 Château de Pierrefonds, Museum Canal in Amsterdam, view from hôtel du Doelen - 1868 The Printz-Gracht in Amsterdam, Thunn on the River Aar, Bern canton - 1869 Rotterdam, Saint-Goar and the Rheinfels on the Rhine - 1870 View of Dordrecht (Netherlands), Amsterdam Wetorhing - 1872 Alkmaar (Netherlands), Dordrecht (Netherlands) - 1873

Publications View of the Courtyard at the château de Pau, 1845, musée national du château de Pau. The Decorations in the bois de Boulogne, forty views from nature, 1862.