Michel Honoré Bounieu (1740–1814) was a French painter of historical and genre subjects, and a

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engraver.

Life

Bounieu was born at

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s in 1740. He was a pupil of

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, and became a member of the Academy at Paris in 1767. He was keeper of the prints at the

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from 1792 to 1794, and for the next twenty years professor of drawing at the École des Ponts-et-Chaussées. He exhibited many pictures at the

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, and at his own studio those of ''Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise'', and ''Bathsheba'', the former of which he himself engraved. The

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has a ''Head of a Woman'', and a ''Baigneuses'' by him. He died in Paris in 1814, leaving a daughter, Emilie Bounieu, later Madame Raveau, who inherited her father's talent, and exhibited historical subjects and portraits from 1800 to 1819.

Prints

Bounieu engraved about fifteen subjects from his own designs. They include: *''Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise''. *''The Magdalen''. *''Love led by Folly''. *''The Punishment of a Vestal''. *''The Birth of Henry IV; an allegory''. *''The Deluge''. *''The Odalisque''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bounieu, Michel Honore 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters 18th-century French engravers 19th-century French engravers 1740 births 1814 deaths Artists from Marseille 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists