Nicolas-Didier Boguet

After being recommended by Augustin Pajou, Boguet was admitted to the Academy in order to study art history. He traveled to Rome in 1783, and began concentrating on landscape painting. He spent his summers traveling and painting in the Italian countryside, producing hundreds of paintings.

Nicolas-Didier Boguet studied at Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Positions recorded include corresponding member. Works named in the authority record are Vallée du Tibre, campagne romaine. Work by Nicolas-Didier Boguet is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Finnish National Gallery, Musée des Augustins, Condé Museum and Musée de Picardie.

Boguet is primarily noted for his outdoor landscapes, but also produced portraits and scenes which included people. There are examples of his work in the galleries of Versailles, Aix, and Montpellier. Near the end of the eighteenth century, Boguet obtained commissions from several European aristocrats to produce Italian landscapes. For Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, he produced A View of Lake Albano (1795). In 1796 he was introduced to Napoleon, who induced him to produce illustrations of Napoleon's campaigns on the Italian peninsula. One notable result of this work is Boguet's Battle of Castiglione.