Tag: François-Léon Benouville

11 Works, Today, March 30th. is artist François-Léon Benouville’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #88

Mar 31, 2021

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This portrait was completed by Benouville around age 19, while he was likely still a student at the École des Beaux-Arts. The sitter was one of the French military officers sent to Egypt as envoys of King Louis-Philippe to thank the Viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha, for donating the ancient Obelisk of Rameses II, erected in…