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Madeleine BoullogneThe old spelling is Boullongne, sometimes also written Boulogne. (baptised 24 July 1646, Paris - 30 January 1710, Paris) was a French

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still life painter.

Biography

Boullogne was the daughter of

Louis Boullogne Louis Boullogne (; August 1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in 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 Acad� ...

, a painter and one of the founders of the

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, and the sister of the painters

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and

Geneviève Boullogne Geneviève Boullogne, Boullongne or Boulogne (22 August 1645 - 5 or 7 August 1708) was a French painter and member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Biography She was born in Paris, the sister of the painters Bon, Madeleine an ...

. On 7 November 1669 she was received into the

. She began working in the royal workshops, notably at the

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, where she painted four canvases for the antechamber to the Grand appartement du roi, but also at the

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, where she painted for the antechamber of the Grand appartement de la reine. Madeleine Boullogne lived an austere and pious life, teaching many students, remaining unmarried and living with her brother Bon. Marked by a strict

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bordering on

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, she lived a semi-monastic life. Her presence in the ''Nécrologe de Port-Royal'' well shows this lifestyle : She painted many works on life at

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, that

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then engraved and which were extremely popular. She also painted still lifes and many portraits, as well as many religious paintings. Madeleigne Boullogne was forgotten little by little over the 18th century, with some of her paintings even being attributed to others. She is best known for her paintings on Port-Royal, especially since many of her paintings at the Tuileries have disappeared and most of her work at Versailles was destroyed in the construction of the

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Works

* Salon of 1673 : six paintings of trophies and one still life of fruits * Salon of 1704 : one still life of fruits, one still life of musical instruments * Versailles, château, above the door to the antechamber of the Grand Couvert, 1673.

Notes and sources

* Caix de Saint-Aymour, ''Une famille d’artistes et de financiers : les Boullongne'', Paris, Henri Laurens, 1919. * Notice sur le site de la Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR
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* ''Dictionnaire de Port-Royal'', sous la direction de Jean Lesaulnier et Anthony McKenna, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2004. * Michel Faré, ''Le Grand Siècle de la nature morte, le XVIIe siècle'', Paris, Fribourg, 1974, p. 245-9.

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