Leon Benouville Portrait of Leconte de Floris in an Egyptian Army Uniform 1840(1840)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 134 x 90.2 cm (52.8 x 35.5 in)
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Paris 1821 - Paris 1859.
was a French painter. Leon Benouville first studied with his elder brother Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891) in the studio of François-Edouard Picot before he transferred to Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1837. Like his brother he received the Prix de Rome in 1845. In Rome, as a Prix de Rome pensionary at the Villa Medici, he stayed with his brother and met the sculptor Charles Gumery.
