Auguste Boulard

Training under Léon Cogniet, Jules Dupré and Thomas Couture is recorded. Louis Lemaire is recorded as having studied under Auguste Boulard. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Romanticism. Work by Auguste Boulard is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, The Mesdag Collection and Musée Magnin.

• Name — Auguste Boulard • Birth Name — Auguste Marie Boulard • Born — May 12, 1825 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — October 11, 1897 • Place of death — L'Isle-Adam, France • Known for — Painting • Style — Romanticism

Auguste Marie Boulard was born on May 12, 1825, in Paris, France, on Rue Saint-Antoine.

Boulard started painting at the age of 15 years old. He received artistic training from the realist academic painter Léon Cogniet. In the early 1840s, he frequented Cogniet's studio in Paris. He took up residence in Antwerp around 1843, and exposure to its coastal life reshaped his subject matter to include seascapes and fishermen. After 1850, he gravitated toward the Oise Valley, first frequenting Champagne-sur-Oise and later establishing himself in L'Isle-Adam. During this period, he entered the orbit of the Barbizon master Jules Dupré, becoming his pupil and learning to paint landscapes directly from nature. Boulard shared the principles and aims of the Barbizon School. His artistic curiosity drove him to study broad horizons, shifting skies, and coastal landscapes. He was residing in Paris when he had his firstborn son in 1852. The Parisian landscape painter associated with the artistic circle of the Île Saint-Louis, where he lived and maintained a studio at 13 quai d’Anjou. Boulard, a neighbor of Honoré Daumier on the Île Saint-Louis, belonged to a group with Daumier, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, Adolphe Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, and Antoine-Louis Barye. His studio where he gave private painting lessons was near the Hôtel de Lauzun (historically Hôtel Pimodan). By 1855, his paintings increasingly portrayed rustic scenes drawn from peasant life in Val-d'Oise. He visited Antwerp in 1858, which allowed him to meet Eugène Delacroix and reestablish contact with Honoré Daumier. Boulard later settled in the village of Cayeux with Jules Dupré around 1865. While in Cayeux, he focused on painting local fishermen and the interiors of their rustic homes. He was patronized by American art dealer George A. Lucas in 1868 and 1869. A still life of apples that he painted entered Lucas's collection in 1869 for 100 francs. Boulard's son, who shared his first name, Auguste, was trained by the elder Boulard. He also counted Louis Marie Lemaire among his pupils. By 1880, Emilio Sánchez Perrier and Antonio de La Gandara were regular visitors at his studio on the Île Saint-Louis. He achieved wider recognition with the inaugural Salon du Champ-de-Mars in 1890 and continued to exhibit there each year. Despite limited public recognition, his work was featured in articles by Jules Comte, Arsène Alexandre, Gonzague Privat, and Eugène Bertol-Graivil. The State supported Boulard by placing two of his works in the national collection at the Luxembourg Museum (Musée du Luxembourg). Boulard's The Fisherman's Child, an oil painting, was purchased by the State in 1887 for the Luxembourg Museum. The Luxembourg Museum received an oil on wood by Boulard, titled The Cherry Child, in March 1895. Galerie Georges Petit in Paris presented a selection of his works during an 1896 exhibition. The exhibition played a key role in confirming his status as a recognized artist of his time.

His children were Auguste Laurent Boulard and Émile Boulard. Auguste Boulard Sr. died on October 11, 1897, in L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France.

• L'Enfant du pêcheur (The Fisherman's Child) • L'Enfant aux cerises (The Cherry Child) • Marine, berger et mouton sur un rivage (Marine, shepherd and sheep on a shore) • Portrait du père de l'artiste (Portrait of the artist's father)

• Illustration — De maaltijd • Illustration — Portrait of Charles de Pidoll • Illustration — L'Enfant aux cerises • Illustration — Zeegezicht • Illustration — Retour de pêche