Jean-Achille Benouville and his younger brother Léon (1821-1859) were pupils of <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/francois-eduard-picot">François-Édouard Picot</a> (1786-1868), the French neoclassical and academic painter and lithographer who specialized in his-tory and genre subjects. Achille studied and sketched in the countryside around Paris, Compiègne, and Fontainebleau and exhibited