Louis Boullogne (; August 1609, in

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– June 1674, in

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), known as Louis le père, was a French painter.

Life

After spending some years in

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, 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

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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

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s for Notre Dame. He engraved copies of these himself and, in Rome in 1637, a copy of ''The Raising of Helena'' after

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. All four of his children (

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and Madeleine) became painters. Geneviève married the

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(c. 1640–1714).

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, p. 1
online
.

Sources

Ferdinand Hoefer Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811, Döschnitz – 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science. Selected works *''Élément ...

, ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', vol. 7, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1857, p. 11.

External links

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