![]() ![]() Pierre noire sur papier chamois 317 x 240 mm Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen, inv. Pencil on tracing paper 335 x 210 mm Louvre Museum, Paris Inv. Made in red chalk, the drawing was probably squared by the artist in order to be transfered to a larger pictorial composition.Ĭondition report – Good general condition. On the back of the sheet, the artist quickly sketched a silhouette in black chalk which could be an angel – with the evocation of wings on the side of the character – which could confirm the theme of this sheet is related to the Toby’s story. 2) presents the same character half-kneeling with a variant in the positioning of the open arms as a sign of adoration. Another sheet kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen entitled Tobie in prayer (fig. 1), in which we find the same character camped in an identical attitude with some slight differences in the layout of the pleats. Our sheet is similar to a drawing executed by the artist in black pencil on tracing paper Young draped man, half-kneeling, facing right (fig. He died prematurely at the age of 38 of typhoid fever. On his return to France, he obtained public recognition with Saint-François d’Assise, transported dying to Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, blessed the city of Assisi, exhibited at the Salon of 1853 and purchased for the Luxembourg museum ( now in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris). In Italy, Léon devoted himself to history painting, developing a predilection for religious subjects. After obtaining the great Prix de Rome for painting in 1845, Léon left for his stay at the Villa Medici in the company of his brother, winner of the grand prize for historical landscape the same year. Younger brother of the landscape artist Achille Benouville, he started at the Salon of 1838. 228c) lower right.īorn in Paris in 1821, François Léon Benouville apprenticed in the studio of François Édouard Picot at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1837. ![]() Stamp of the artist François Léon Benouville ( L. Sanguine, squared in pencil on beige paper. Study of a Draped, Half-Kneeling Man with Raised Hands – Study of an Angel (on the reverse, in black chalk) ![]() François Léon Benouville dit Léon Benouville ![]()
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