Object Notes

1984.63 Jean-Achille Benouville, Colosseum Viewed from the Palatine


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
A successful landscape painter, Jean-Achille Benouville frequently exhibited canvases featuring the environs of Paris, among other French cities, at the Paris Salon from 1834 onward. Nevertheless, he is best known for the paintings he produced during sojourns in Italy, which are notable for their great sensitivity to the depiction of light and atmosphere.