Louis Boullogne 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 Académie de peinture, where he was a professor until his death.

He was talented as a copyist and many anecdotes are extant on this topic, more or less true. He painted Saint Simeón, St Paul's Miracle at Ephesus and The Beheading of St Paul for Notre Dame

Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris , also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra of...

. He engraved copies of these himself and, in Rome in 1637, a copy of The Raising of Helena after Guido Reni

Guido Reni

Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...

.

All four of his children (Bon

Bon Boullogne

Bon Boullogne was a French painter.-Biography:Boullogne was born in Paris, a son of the painter Louis Boullogne; he was regarded as the most gifted of his children. He took his first lessons from his father, whom he is thought to have assisted in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre...

, Louis

Louis de Boullogne

Louis de Boullogne II , known as Boullogne fils, was a French painter.-Life:The brother of Bon Boullogne, their father Louis Boullogne feared rivalry between the two brothers if Louis the younger also became a painter and so at first opposed his wish to become a painter...

, Geneviève and Madeleine

Madeleine Boullogne

Madeleine Boullogne was a French Baroque still life painter.-Family:She was the daughter of Louis Boullogne and the sister of the painters Bon, Louis and Geneviève Boullogne.-Life:On 7 November 1669 she was received into the Académie royale de...

) became painters, and Geneviève also married the sculptor Jean-Jacques Clérion

Jean-Jacques Clérion

Jean-Jacques Clérion was a French sculptor who worked mainly for King Louis XIV.Clérion was born in either Aix-en-Provence or Trets. For much of his career he worked on the Chateau de Versailles, including many of the famous garden sculptures, such as the "Apollo Fountain"...

 (c. 1640-1714).

External links

• Louis Boullogne on base joconde.

Source

• Ferdinand Hoefer
  Ferdinand Hoefer
  Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science.-Selected works:...
  
  , Nouvelle Biographie générale, vol. 7, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1857, p. 11.