François-Léon Benouville
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François-Léon Benouville (Paris 30 March 1821 – 16 February 1859 Paris) was a French painter.
Léon Benouville first studied with his elder brother Jean-Achille Benouville (1815–1891) in the studio of François-Edouard Picot before he transferred to École des Beaux-Arts in 1837. Like his brother he received the Prix de Rome in 1845. In Rome, as a Prix de Rome pensionary at the Villa Medici. His works produced in Rome are influenced by early Christianity and often show representations of antiquity.
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Media related to Léon Benouville at Wikimedia Commons
- François-Léon Benouville on Artcyclopedia
- Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Benouville (see index)
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