Pierre Justin Ouvrié
Pierre Justin Ouvrié or Ouvrié was a French painter and lithographer. He was known as Justin Ouvrié from 1852 onwards.
Life
Born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Justin Ouvrié was a student of baron Taylor and Abel de Pujol at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 onwards with views of towns and monuments, sometimes as historical or picturesque scenes.
He was very successful under the July Monarchy, winning a 2nd class medal at the 1831 Salon, a 1st class medal at the 1843 Salon and a 3rd class medal at the 1855 Exposition Universelle as well as being made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1854. He was a professor at the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur in Saint-Denis.
He later became blind, after which the paintings in his studio were sold off at the hôtel Drouot on 21 December 1874. Moving to Maisons-Laffitte, he died at Sotteville-lès-Rouen. His pupils included Jean-Joseph Bellel and Paul Chardin.
Salon works
As Pierre Justin Ouvrié
Landscape - 1831Grand Canal, Venice, View of the House of Incurables in Naples, View of the Mont-Saint-Bernard Hospice, View at Landernau, The Pont de Pontoise - 1833View of Piazza Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice - 1834Interior of the Lorenzkirche, Nuremberg, View of the Mont-d'Or Valley, The Aigues-Mortes Lighthouse, Valtin Valley - 1835View of the château in Twickenham near Richmond, lived in by the king during his stay in England, View of Rouen from Le Cours, San Pietro Church in Genoa, View at Lerici, near La Spezzi, Italy, View of Rouen from the petite chaussée - 1836Santa Lucia Quay in Naples, View of Rouen from the petite chaussée, The Place de Royat near Clermont-Ferrand, Chartres Cathedral from place des Eparts - 1837View of Château de Cossigny, View in the parc de Cossigny - 1838The Courtyard of Heidelberg Castle, View of Noël Saint-Martin Church, View at Chartres, View of the Lorenzer Platz in Nuremberg - 1839Oval Courtyard at the château de Fontainebleau, arrival of Queen Christine, View of the village of Ablon-sur-Seine - 1840The French Army Marching on Mascara after a sketch by M. Siméon Fort, View of the Castle and Town of Heidelberg, View of Augsburg - 1841Château de Fontainebleau, view from the jardin anglais, View of the église de la Roche, near Landernau, Church and Calvary at Plougastel-Saint-Germain, near Quimper, View of Taverny, vallée de Montmorency - 1842View of château de Chenonceaux on the Cher, Séricourt, near la Ferté-sous-Jouarre ''The Palais de Saint-Cloud, view from the park - 1843View of the château de Pau and Part of the Town of Pau, from the park - 1844View of les Eaux-Bonnes, Châlet de Séricourt, View of the Grand Canal in Venice - 1845View of the château d'Azay-le-Rideau, Château d'Ussé, Memory of Dinan, Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice - 1846View of the Main Square and Cloth Hall in Ypres, View at Amboise - 1847Place de la Halle à Bruges, Vue prise à Honfleur, Le Château de Châteaudun, vue prise des bords de Loir - 1848View of rue Flamande in Bruges, View of Saint-Sébastien in Bruges, The Pont Neuf in Chartres - 1849Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Lambeth Palace in London, The Béguinage in Bruges, View of Rouen, taken from Le Cours'' - 1850
As Justin Ouvrié
View of Somerset House and Saint Paul's Cathedral, London - 1852 Windsor Castle, The Church at Hastings - 1852View of Amsterdam - 1853 Banks of the Rhine, Saint-Goars and Rheinfelds, Banks of the Rhine, Oberwesel, Castle and City of Heidelberg, Santa Lucia Quay in Naples - 1855Trarbach-sur-Moselle, Rolandsech and Drackenfels on the Rhine, Boppart, near Koblenz, Entrance to The Hague, through the Ryswick Canal - 1857View of Rotterdam - 1859Memory of the Banks of the Rhine between Koblenz and Mainz, Mont Blanc and the Chaumont Valley, View of Antwerp, Memory of Italy, road from Ancona to Bologna, The Moselle near Bern-Castel - 1861View of Salzburg, The Walter Scott Monument, Calton Hill and Canongate in Edinburgh, The Hereengracht in Amsterdam - 1863Le Château d'Anet, Château de Villepinte, au Salon de 1864Edinburgh from Calton Hill - 1865 Château de Pierrefonds in 1864 - 1865City and Castle of Heidelberg, Freiburg Cathedral in Brisgau - 1866Château de Pierrefonds, Museum Canal in Amsterdam, view from hôtel du Doelen - 1868The Printz-Gracht in Amsterdam, Thunn on the River Aar, Bern canton - 1869Rotterdam, Saint-Goar and the Rheinfels on the Rhine - 1870View of Dordrecht, Amsterdam Wetorhing - 1872Alkmaar, Dordrecht - 1873
Publications
The Decorations in the bois de Boulogne, forty views from nature, 1862.