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accession number:	2010.240
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View Near Tivoli (Vue prise à Tivoli), 1857. Jean Achille Benouville (French, 1815–1891). Brown wash (with point of brush work) with gray wash and graphite, heightened with white (paint/gouache); sheet: 18.7 x 27.4 cm (7 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2010.240

title:				View Near Tivoli (Vue prise à Tivoli)
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creation date:			1857
creation date earliest:		1857
creation date latest:		1857
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	brown wash (with point of brush work) with gray wash and graphite, heightened with white (paint/gouache)
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 18.7 x 27.4 cm (7 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
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	description:	thick, probably unsized rough-textured "brown paper" 
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	inscription:	Inscribed in brown ink lower left: Tivoli 5-57
Verso: Inscribed on right in white chalk: 1274978
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PROVENANCE

	[Vente Atelier Bénouville, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 January 1901]; [Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1979 ("Old Master Drawings and Watercolors"), lot. #39, illus.]
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