Louis Boullogne
Illustration — Louis de Boullogne (le père) Louis Boullogne (August 1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter.
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Louis Boullogne
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- Born
- 1609 · Paris.
- Died
- 1674 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · artist
- Teachers
- Jean-Baptiste Blanchard
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Louis de Boullogne (le père) Louis Boullogne (August 1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter.
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Training under Jean-Baptiste Blanchard is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris and Rome. Work by Louis Boullogne is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, Blanton Museum of Art and Musée du Grand Siècle.
After spending some years in Italy, Boullogne set up in Paris and made a major contribution to the organisation of the Académie de peinture, where he was a professor until his death. He was a talented copyist and many anecdotes exist about this, which are more-or-less true. He painted Saint Simeón, St Paul's Miracle at Ephesus and The Beheading of St Paul as Mays for Notre Dame. He engraved copies of these himself and, in Rome in 1637, a copy of The Raising of Helena after Guido Reni. All four of his children (Bon, Louis, Geneviève and Madeleine) became painters. Geneviève married the sculptor Jean-Jacques Clérion (c. 1640–1714).
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