Joseph Villevieille

Joseph Villevieille (6 August 1829 – 11 February 1916) was a French painter.

[1] He became friends with Paul Cézanne,[3] whose mother he painted shortly before she died.

[1] When the townhall of Aix-en-Provence was burgled on 22 August 1872, Villevieille was commissioned to do many paintings for its walls.

[1] Some of those paintings were portraits of prominent local painters like Jean-Baptiste van Loo and François Marius Granet, and local historian Scholastique Pitton.

[1] In 1900, he did a painting of Sextius Calvinus, the founder of Aix-en-Provence, which is also in the collection of the townhall.

Sextius Calvinus, founder of Aix-en-Provence, painted by Joseph Villevieille in 1900.