Leon Benouville
Paris 1821 - Paris 1859.
was a French painter. Leon Benouville first studied with his elder brother Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891) in the studio of François-Edouard Picot before he transferred to Ecole 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, he stayed with his brother and met the sculptor Charles Gumery.
ID: 10910 St.Francis of Assisi, Carrie Dying to Santa Maria degli Angeli, Blesses the City 1853, Salon of 1853. 3' 1/2" x 7' 10 1/2" (93 x 240 cm). Deposit from the Louvre.
