Title - Family Group
Medium - Pen and Ink c1700
Artist - Att Louis de Boullogne 1654 - 1733
Size - 25cm x 18cm
This is a scarce example of a work which has been attributed to Louis de Boullogne 1654 -1733, it has an 19th century attribution at bottom left on the worked sheet.
Condition is good although a little grubby..
Boullogne was born and died in Paris, and was the brother of Bon Boullogne. Their father, painter Louis Boullogne, who trained his four children, feared rivalry between the two brothers if Louis the younger became a painter and so at first opposed his wish to do so. However, his vocation finally won through and every evening Louis crossed Paris to go with Bon to draw at the Académie. Aged 18 he won the Grand prix de Peinture and left for Rome in 1676, when his brother returned from there.[2] He made copies after The School of Athens, Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, and many other works by Raphael, from which the Gobelins made many different tap
...estries for the French king. He won a prize at the Accademia di San Luca for a drawing of ''Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot''.
Returning through Lombardy and Venice in 1680, Louis arrived in Paris and soon won a great reputation. In 1681 he was received as a member of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture: his reception piece being Augustus Orders the Closing of the Temple of Janus. On 3 February 1688 he married Marguerite Bacquet. He began to teach at the Academy in 1692. He was involved in the decoration of the Château de Meudon. In 1701 Boullogne received a royal commission to paint Flora and Zephyr as part of the grand redecoration of Francis I''s gallery at Fontainebleau.
In 1722, he was chosen to design the medals and mottos for the Académie des inscriptions, receiving a new 1,000 livres pension and the ordre de Saint-Michel. He was made rector of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture; in 1725, first painter to the king, with letters patent of nobility for him and his descendants. In 1722, Boullogne became the Director of the Académie, a position he retained until his death in 1733. His students included Michel de Cornical [fr], Louis Galloche and Jacques-François Courtin. A strong advocate of the Académie, Louis de Boullogne supported its students with his lessons and his protection. He was the sworn enemy of the pochades and bambochades, claiming that only those with great skill and a fully formed taste could be allowed to paint.
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Internal Reference: BOULLOGNE
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1178950
Dateline of this antique is 18th Century
Height is 22cm (8.7inches)Width is 18cm (7.1inches)Depth is 1cm (0.4inches)
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