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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
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Jean Achille Benouville (1815-1891) was a French landscape painter. He painted many landscapes in the vicinity of Paris, Italia Compiègne and Fontainebleau. He also depicted people from the Italian countryside in his works.
After a stay of three years at the Villa Médicis, he decided to remain in Italy, but continued to display his works at exhibitions in Paris. He shared a studio in Rome with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. His early works influenced by Corot, however his later Italian landscapes are in the tradition of Claude Lorrain.
Benouville worked with oil painting and also used gouaches and water-colours. He was traditional artist and assimilated different influences in Rome. He was one artist who continued with classical landscape style against an onslaught of Impressionists. His scapes are set against the vast extent of lands, with architecture being dwarfed, yet posited well.
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