Nicolas Baullery, Bolleri or Bollery (c. 1560 - 1630) was a French painter and illustrator. Vladimir Nestorov, ''Nicolas Baullery (v.1560 - 1630). Enquête sur un peintre parisien à l'aube du Grand Siècle'', mémoire de recherche sous la dir. d'Olivier Bonfait, Paris, École du Louvre, 2014.

Life

He was from a Parisian family and his father Jérôme and nephew

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were also painters - Blanchard served as an apprentice under Nicolas. He worked on several churches in Paris (the Benedictine Blancs-Manteaux, the Third Order one of Picpus, the Chartreux) and produced 'petits Mays' for

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. He also produced engravings on the theme of

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's entry into Paris in 1594.

Works

* ''Nativité'', church at

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* ''Christ before Pilate'', formerly in the church at

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, location now unknown (the church was destroyed in

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and its contents were housed in civic buildings; the painting was sold by the town in 1981; on 15 October 2008, number 13 in the list of works dispersed from Guy and Christiane Aldecoa's collection was misidentified as the work) * ''Adoration of the Shepherds'', église Saint Martin,

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* ''Adoration of the Shepherds'', cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toulouse * ''Peasant dance'' ou ''Country Dance at Celleneuve'',

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, musée Fabre

Previously attributed to him

* ''Henry IV Renouncing Protestantism in the

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'', undated,

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, inv. A. 1974-1-6. (formerly in the l'église Saint-Martin de Meudon).

Bibliography

* Pierre Marcel, Jean Guiffrey, « Une illustration du "Pas des armes de Sandricourt" par Jérôme ou Nicolas Bollery », dans ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', 1907, t.37, p. 277-288.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baullery, Nicolas 1630 deaths 16th-century French painters 17th-century French painters Year of birth uncertain