François-Auguste Ravier (4 May 1814 – 26 June 1895) was a French landscape painter.

Biography

He was born in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

. His parents encouraged him to prepare for a legal career, so he went to Paris. While studying law, from 1833 to 1839, he also devoted himself to painting; enrolling at the

École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

, where he studied with

Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny Claude François Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (1798–1871) was a French Landscape art, landscape painter. Life He was born at Saint-Aubin-des-Chaumes, Chaumes (Nièvre) in 1798. In 1808 he went to Paris, where he studied painting under Louis Éti ...

. In 1835, he visited Royat, and became acquainted with

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French Landscape art, landscape and Portraitist, portrait painter as well as a printmaking, printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in ...

, who had a great influence on his early style.Extract
from the Bénézit Dictionary From 1840 to 1845, at the urging of Corot, he worked in Italy, where he mingled with the French art community. Although he spent most of his time wandering through the countryside painting, he apparently never exhibited his works there. After returning to France, he settled in Crémieu until 1868, when he moved to Morestel, attracted by the lighting and impressive, isolated landscapes. Many young painters were interested in his experimental techniques, and went there to seek his advice. Much later, these artists were grouped together and called the "École de Morestel". François Guiguet, whom he met in 1876 is, perhaps, the best remembered among this group. In his final decade, Ravier suffered from a progressive blindness. It was said that he had "looked at the sun too much". He died in Morestel in 1895. In addition to Corot, Ravier was a great admirer of the English painter,

J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbu ...

. Due to his innovative methods of mixing colors, he is sometimes considered to be an early

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

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More works by Ravier
@ ArtNet
Works by Ravier
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François-Auguste Ravier Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravier, Francois-Auguste 1814 births 1895 deaths 19th-century French painters French landscape painters Impressionist artists Artists from Lyon

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