Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy - Vue de Messine

Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757 – 11 November 1841) was a French

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known for his

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s. A native of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, Dunouy began his career depicting views of the city and the surrounding region, exhibiting at the

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for the first time in 1791. He exhibited views of the area around

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and

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

; he showed regularly until 1833, save for a few absences. He received medals in 1819 and 1827. He is known to have traveled to

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

in 1810 under the patronage of

Joachim Murat Joachim Murat ( , also ; ; ; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French Army officer and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the ...

; there is also evidence that he traveled there in the 1780s. He is also associated with the

Auvergne Auvergne (; ; or ) is a cultural region in central France. As of 2016 Auvergne is no longer an administrative division of France. It is generally regarded as conterminous with the land area of the historical Province of Auvergne, which was dis ...

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, and the area around

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 ...

. Dunouy's paintings were primarily small and decorative, and he was associated with the artists known as ''little masters''. Their compositions are generally classical, and feature great detail and even lighting. Some of his works include figures added by Jean-Louis Demarne and Nicolas Antoine Taunay. Dunouy may have taught Achille-Etna Michallon; he died in 1841 in

Jouy-en-Josas Jouy-en-Josas () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is located in the southwestern outer suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris, on the departmental border with Essonne. Jouy- ...

References

*Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, and Jeremy Strick. ''In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting''. New Haven; Yale University Press, 1996.
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