| Joseph Villevieille | |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1829 |
| Birth Place: | Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
| Death Place: | Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
| Resting Place: | Saint-Pierre Cemetery |
| Alma Mater: | École des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation: | Painter |
Joseph Villevieille (1829 - 1916) was a French painter.
Joseph Villevieille was born on 6 August 1829 in Aix-en-Provence.[1] [2] He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[1]
Villevieille taught painting in Aix-en-Provence.[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.[1]
Villevieille died on 11 February 1916 in Aix-en-Provence.[1] He was buried at the Saint-Pierre Cemetery in Aix-en-Provence.[1] The Avenue joseph villevieille in Aix-en-Provence was named in his honor.[4]