Geneviève Boullogne, Boullongne or Boulogne (22 August 1645 - 5 or 7 August 1708) was a French painter and member of the

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Biography

She was born in

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, the sister of the painters

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, Madeleine and

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. She trained under their father Louis Boullogne. and collaborated with Madeleine on the grand apartments at the

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. She later worked in

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(where she died) and married the sculptor

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. She and her sister were both admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 7 December 1669. She mainly painted historical subjects and still lifes, especially of flowers and fruit.

References

1645 births 1708 deaths French women painters 17th-century French painters 18th-century French painters Painters from Paris Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture {{France-painter-17thC-stub