FRANҪOIS-LÉON BENOUVILLE (1821 – 1859) was a French painter noted for his Neoclassical religious compositions and for painting Orientalist subjects.
He first studied with his elder brother, Jean-Achille Benouville (1815–1891), in the studio of François-Edouard Picot before he transferred to École des Beaux-Arts in 1837. Like his brother he received the Prix de Rome in 1845.
Both he and his brother travelled to Rome. In Rome, as a Prix de Rome pensionary at the Villa Medici. He remained there for a year, but his brother stayed on for two more years. His works produced in Rome are influenced by early Christianity and often show representations of antiquity.
Benouville was best known for his portraits, mythological and religious compositions in the Neoclassical and Orientalist style. He worked in oils, ink and chalk.
In 1845, Benouville, together with contemporary Alexandre Cabanel, was the recipient of the Prix de Beaux Arts for his painting, Jesus at the Pretorium.
Benouville was only 37 when he died in Paris in 1859.
ARTWORK:
Jésus at the Pretorium 1843, François-Léon Benouville.
François-Léon Bënouville (1821-1859). The shadow of Achilles appearing to the Greeks. Unknown date – probably ca. 1840’s.
The Wrath of Achilles (1847), by François-Léon Benouville (1821-1859). Musée Fabre.
Joan of Arc – Painting by Léon François Bénouville at the Rouen Museum. 
Cincinnatus Receives a Deputation from the Senate, 1844, by François-Léon Benouville.
Francois León Benouville (1821-1859), French. Benouville was an academic painter, younger brother of Jean Achille Benouville, with whom he studied. His paintings have as their dominant themes those of a historical, mythological and religious nature.
Male Torso ,1844.