François Auguste Ravier

1814 Lyon – 1895 Morestel

The landscape painter, François Auguste Ravier, was a self-taught artist. Influenced in his work by Turner and Corot, he honed his artistic skills in Rome from 1844 to 1848. After 1867 he lived and worked in the little town of Morestel in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.