Nicolas-Didier Boguet (18 February 1755,
Chantilly, Oise - 1 April 1839,
Rome) was a French
landscape painter. He spent his adult life in
Rome.
Boguet was sent to Paris at age 23 as a protégé of the
Prince of Condé
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. After being recommended by
Augustin Pajou
Augustin Pajou (19 September 1730 – 8 May 1809) was a French sculptor, born in Paris. At eighteen he won the Prix de Rome, and at thirty exhibited his ''Pluton tenant Cerbère enchaîné'' (now in the Louvre).
Selected works
Pajou's portrait ...
, 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.
Artistic output
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,
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Montpellier
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.
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
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, 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''.
Representations
A marble bust of Boguet was rendered by
Jean-Jacques Feuchère. It is in the Musée des beaux-arts in
Angers, France.
An oil portrait of Boguet was rendered by an anonymous painter; it is held in the collection of the
Accademia di San Luca in Rome.
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References
Attribution:
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1755 births
1839 deaths
French landscape painters
People from Chantilly, Oise
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