Louis Boullogne

Louis de Boullogne (le père)

Louis Boullogne (c.1609, Picardy – June 1674, Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter.

Life

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 talented as a copyist and many anecdotes are extant on this topic, more or less true. He painted Saint Simeón, St Paul's Miracle at Ephesus and The Beheading of St Paul 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, and Geneviève also married the sculptor Jean-Jacques Clérion (c. 1640–1714).

External links

• Louis Boullogne on base joconde.

Bibliography

• Amédée Caix de Saint-Aymour, Les Boullongne : une famille d’artistes et de financiers aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Ed. Henri Laurens, Paris, 1919.

Sources

• Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie générale, vol. 7, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1857, p. 11.