Michel Honoré Bounieu

The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris and Marseille. Work by Michel Honoré Bounieu is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen and Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille.

• Illustration — Enlèvement du soulier de Rodope, formerly known as Les femmes se baignant au bord de la rivière or Baigneuses turques (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux) Bounieu was born at Marseilles in 1740. He was a pupil of Pierre, and became a member of the Academy at Paris in 1767. He was keeper of the prints at the Bibliothèque Nationale 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 Salon, 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 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux 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.

The authorities additionally record the headings Michel-Honoré Bounieu, Michel Honore Bounieu, Michel-Honore Bounieu, Bonnieu and M.^Tr^R Bounieu. His recorded language was French. One child is recorded: Emilie Bounieu.

Michel Honoré Bounieu is recorded as painter, gem engraver, printmaker and artist.