id: 150129 accession number: 1980.5 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.5 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:46.262000 Capri, c. 1845. Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815–1891). Oil on fabric; framed: 43 x 60 x 6 cm (16 15/16 x 23 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 28.1 x 44.7 cm (11 1/16 x 17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1980.5 title: Capri title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1845 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815–1891) - artist Jean-Achille Benouville and his younger brother Léon (1821-1859) were pupils of François-Édouard Picot (1786-1868), the French neoclassical and academic painter and lithographer who specialized in his-tory and genre subjects. Achille studied and sketched in the countryside around Paris, Compiègne, and Fontainebleau and exhibited the finished paintings at the Salon from 1834 on. In 1837, along with his brother Léon, Achille entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1838 through 1843 Achille visited Italy at least three times. In 1845 Achille won the Premier Grand Prix in the category Historic Landscape with Ulysses and Nausicaa (École des Beaux-Arts, Paris), a genre he continued to paint until the end of his career. Léon won the same prize in the category of History Paint-ing. Together they went to Rome, where Achille remained with interruptions until 1871, all the while continuing to send his paintings to the Paris Salon. In 1851 he had married Eugénie-Clarisse Quesney Lerouge (1820-1870), and the couple had three children. They eventually separated, and he returned to Paris, remarried in 1871, and continued to travel regularly, several times to the Pyrenees and once to the Netherlands in 1875. While his first works strictly adhered to the academic system of landscape painting, Achille gradually distanced himself from the constraining rules that he had been taught and produced works characterized by greater spontaneity. --- measurements: Framed: 43 x 60 x 6 cm (16 15/16 x 23 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 28.1 x 44.7 cm (11 1/16 x 17 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: Achille Benouville translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox. The Lure of Rome: Some Northern Artists in Italy in the Nineteenth Century (1979), no. 83, fig. 39.', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1979. Purchased by the CMA on 30 January 1980. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 18-19, Vol. I, no. 6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.5/1980.5_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.5/1980.5_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.5/1980.5_full.tif