Jules Benoit-Lévy
{{short description|French painter}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Jules Benoit-Levy
| image = Jules Benoit-Lévy.png
| caption = Jules Benoit-Lévy, 1896
| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|02|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{dda|1952|03|14|1866|02|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Nogent-sur-Marne, France
| movement = Realism and Impressionism
| awards = Officier de l'Instruction Publique (Golden Palms)
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| known_for = Painter
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Jules Benoit-Lévy (27 February 1866 – 14 March 1952){{Cite web |url=http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/1860_1902_actes/aec_visu_img.php?registre=V4E_00266&type=AEC&&bdd_en_cours=actes_ec_1860_1870&vue_tranche_debut=AD075EC_V4E_00266_0064&vue_tranche_fin=AD075EC_V4E_00266_0094&ref_histo=6901&cote=V4E%20266 |title=Mairie de Paris, Naissances, 3e arr, V4E 266, p.13, № 398, Benoit-Levy |access-date=2013-07-04 |archive-date=2013-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111011948/http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/1860_1902_actes/aec_visu_img.php?registre=V4E_00266&type=AEC&&bdd_en_cours=actes_ec_1860_1870&vue_tranche_debut=AD075EC_V4E_00266_0064&vue_tranche_fin=AD075EC_V4E_00266_0094&ref_histo=6901&cote=V4E%20266 |url-status=dead }} was a French painter and printmaker.Pierre Nora -Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, Volume 2: Space -2006 - Page 446 "Figure 6.13 Jules Benoît-Lévy, La Bretagne, Salon of 1911"
Biography
Benoit-Lévy was born in Paris. He was the son of Baruch Benoit-Lévy (1821–1884) and Julie Strasburger (1826–1901). At the Paris School of Decorative Arts, he studied under Gustave Boulanger and Henri Lucien Doucet, then entered the Jules Joseph Lefebvre workshop at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.[http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00016557?rskey=3dUMyf&result=7 Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2006], site Oxford Index (subscription or library membership required)
A history and sea painter, he also worked on genre paintings featuring cardinals in anecdotal everyday situations, a theme in vogue at the time.
Benoit-Lévy exhibited his paintings at the Petite Gelerie Drouot, 23 rue Drouot in Paris.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6202999j/f8.image.r=Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité : supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts; 1901/12/28 (N41), p.336],[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6123809d/f227.image.r=Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Art et décoration (Paris), 1903/01 (T13)-1903/06, p.4] Gallica BnF
After trying himself in various genres, Jules Benoit-Levy went to the Netherlands, and stayed at the island of Marken. He created fifty paintings that show sensitive and specific nature of these places.
More than his finished paintings, which resulted from great effort, his sketches show precise observation of atmosphere—sometimes characterized by clear, brightened colours, green or orange; sometimes grey and veiled in mist.
In 1902 he exhibited in Paris fifty paintings he made during a stay in the Netherlands, on the theme of everyday life and typical interiors.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6344418b/f3.image.r=benoit%20levy.langEN La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité : supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts; 1902/12/20 (N40), p.319, EXPOSITION JULES BENOIT-LÉVY]; Gallica BnF
Benoit-Lévy exhibited his paintings at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris and received a third medal in 1895, honorable mention in 1901, and a third class medal in 1911.
In 1911 and 1912, Benoit-Lévy exhibited in Monte-Carlo in Palais des Beaux-Arts at the Exposition Internationale.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k289146r/f4.zoom.r=Jules%20Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Figaro, 1911/03/07 (Numéro 66), p.4]; Monte-Carlo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Internationale des Beaux-Arts; Gallica BNF[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2894815/f5.image.r=Jules%20Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Figaro, 1912/02/03 (Numéro 34), p.5]; Monte-Carlo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Internationale des Beaux-Arts; Gallica BNF
From 1911[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k349857/f403.image.r=Jules%20Beno%C3%AEt%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Magasin pittoresque / publié.., 1911 (A79,SER3,T12), p.11]; Gallica BnF to 1930, he exhibited at the Salon D'Hiver in Grand Palais.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5424116z/f20.image.r=benoit-levy.langEN Salon d'hiver (Paris), 1930 (25), p.10]; Gallica BnF
He was awarded the Golden Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Officier de l'Instruction Publique)[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k287576g/f3.zoom.r=Jules%20Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Figaro, 1906/12/20 (Numéro 354), p.3]; Gallica BNF
Benoit-Lévy died in Nogent-sur-Marne on 14 March 1952.
Works
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- The soup of the squad; at the manceuvers[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1893soci#page/76/mode/1up Salon 1893]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- Combat a Tinténiac, près Rennes, 1793[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1894soci#page/211/mode/1up Salon 1894]; Société des Artistes Français, archive.org; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62244530/f20.image.r=Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Monde illustré, 1894/05/05 (A38,T74,N1936), p.296], Gallica BnF
- Examination of the Prince of T.[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1895soci#page/44/mode/1up Salon 1895]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- La Défense de Rambervillers (Vosges) en 1870[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1896soci#page/39/mode/1up Salon 1896]; Société des Artistes Français, archive.org; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6549632b/f241.image.r=Jules%20Benoit-L%C3%A9vy.langEN Légion d'honneur. 1802-1900, p.211] Gallica BnF
- Sentry reposing, 1793[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1897soci#page/186/mode/1up Salon 1897]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- La Bretagne[http://www.collection.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr/Navigart/images/image_fset.php?iid=0&maxh=776&is_sel=0&aid=1417&ord=title&sl=B La Bretagne, 221 x 150.7 cm.]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
- The arrest of Condorcet[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1898soci#page/140/mode/1up Salon 1898]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5596909c/f3.image.r=Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Journal du dimanche, 1898/05/22 (A43,N2974), p. 451]; Gallica BnF
- 14 th July 1789. En route to take the Bastille[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k202506r/f213.image.r=Benoit-L%C3%A9vy.langEN Salon 1899]; Société des Artistes Français; Gallica BnF
- Death of General Moulin; Cholet, 1794[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1900soci#page/124/mode/1up Salon 1900]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org; [http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oeuvre/analyse.php?i=861&d=1&a=649 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110120105/http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oeuvre/analyse.php?i=861&d=1&a=649 |date=2013-11-10 }}
- Dutch Home[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1901soci#page/2/mode/1up Salon 1901]; Société des Artistes Français, archive.org; [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k34975x/f754.image.r=Jules%20Beno%C3%AEt%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Magasin pittoresque / publié... 1901 (A69,SER3,T2), p. 753], Gallica BnF
- Het Breistertje[http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/ZZM01:B001459/&p=15&i=6&t=1364&st=volendam&sc=%28volendam%29/ 1901]; Zuiderzeemuseum
- Dutch Home[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1902soci#page/169/mode/1up Salon 1902]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- Evening; - near Amsterdam[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k110433t/f97.image.r=Benoit-L%C3%A9vy.langEN Salon 1903]; Société des Artistes Français; Gallica BnF
- Good Hope Inn (Holland)[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1904soci#page/151/mode/1up Salon 1904]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- Evening chat. (Holland)[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1905soci#page/91/mode/1up Salon 1905]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org; [http://www.duran-subastas.com/fotos/calidad_baja/650821.jpg Duran-Subastas, Nº 495 march 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110193758/http://www.duran-subastas.com/fotos/calidad_baja/650821.jpg |date=10 November 2013 }}
- Intérieur[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63787490/f163.image.r=Benoit-L%C3%A9vy.langEN Les Parisiens de Paris, 1905, p.127]; Gallica BnF
- Causerie du soir[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63787490/f162.image.r=Benoit-L%C3%A9vy.langEN Les Parisiens de Paris, 1905, p.126]; Gallica BnF
- Paneakes at Pont-Croix[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1906soci#page/62/mode/1up Salon 1906]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- The old chaps (Holland)[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1907soci#page/119/mode/1up Salon 1907]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
- On the dyke (Holland)[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueillustr1908soci#page/184/mode/1up Salon 1908]; Société des Artistes Français; archive.org
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References
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Notes
- Bénézit, p. 631.
External links
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- [https://archive.org/stream/nospeintresetscu1897mart#page/24/mode/2up Jules Martin, Nos peintres et sculpteurs, Paris, Flammarion, 1898, volume 2, p. 25. (archive.org)]
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63798509/f317.image.r=Benoit-L%C3%A9vy.langFR Les Parisiens de Paris, 1901, p. 275 (BNF)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202919/http://pictify.com/user/AnFil/55322 Album "Jules BENOIT-LÉVY (1866-1952)", Pictify]
- [http://gw3.geneanet.org/muriellise?lang=nl&p=jules&n=benoit+levy&oc=0&pz=muriel+lise&nz=levy&ocz=0 Famille Benoit-Lévy (généalogie), par Muriel Lévy]
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k286702w/f1.image.r=Jules%20Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Figaro, 1904/08/12 (Numéro 225)]
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2903498/f5.zoom.r=Jules%20Benoit%20L%C3%A9vy.langEN Le Figaro, 1914/06/17 (Numéro 168), p.5] Jules BENOIT-LÉVY president des Amis de Paris.
- [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65851772/f429.image.r=J%20Benoit-Levy.langEN Les Amis de Paris: revue mensuelle illustrée, 1914/01 (A4,N27)-1923/06 (A13,N30), p. 374]; Gallica BnF
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