Alma mater École des Beaux-Arts | Occupation Painter | |
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Died 11 February 1916, Aix-en-Provence, France | ||
Joseph Villevieille (1829–1916) was a French painter.
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Early life
Joseph Villevieille was born on August 06, 1829 in Aix-en-Provence. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Career
Villevieille taught painting in Aix-en-Provence. He became friends with Paul Cézanne, whose mother he painted shortly before she died.
When the townhall of Aix-en-Provence was burglarized on August 22, 1872, Viillevielle was commissioned to do many paintings for its walls. Some of those paintings were portraits of prominent local painters like Jean-Baptiste van Loo and François Marius Granet, and local historian Scholastique Pitton. In 1900, he did a painting of Sextius Calvinus, the founder of Aix-en-Provence, which is also in the collection of the townhall.
Death and legacy
Villevieille died on February 11, 1916 in Aix-en-Provence. He was buried at the Saint-Pierre Cemetery in Aix-en-Provence. The Avenue joseph villevieille in Aix-en-Provence was named in his honor.