- Louis Boulanger
Louis Boulanger (
11 March 1806 ,Vercelli ,Piedmont -5 March 1867 ,Dijon ) was a French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator.Life
He enrolled in 1821 at the École des beaux-arts where he attended the workshop of
Guillaume Guillon Lethière and received a solid classical training. Next he made a présentation for theprix de Rome , in 1824, in which he finished logiste. He became the companion ofEugène Devéria and an intimate ofVictor Hugo as well as different Parisian Romantic circles, which had a decisive effect on his career.He saw great success at the Salon of 1827 thanks to his "Supplice de Mazeppa", was awarded a medal on the occasion of a special salon for the new school, which also showed "La Naissance d'Henri IV" by Eugène Devéria and "
La Mort de Sardanapale " by Delacroix. However, this success did not continue in the young painter's career. He painted the portrait of several personalities of the era, including the most famous example, "Balzac in a monk's robe", now at the musée des beaux-arts inTours . Several of Boulanger's works are held at the maison Victor Hugo inplace des Vosges , Paris.He was illustrator of several Romantic works of Victor Hugo and
Alexandre Dumas , as well as a series of strange lithographs on fantastical themes customarily attached to the frenetic vein which certain artists exploited in this period. "La Ronde du Sabbat" by Louis Boulanger is the only icon of this poorly-studied tendency.Bibliography
*Aristide Marie, "Le Peintre poète Louis Boulanger", H. Floury, coll. « La Vie et l'art romantiques », Paris, 1925.
*Théophile Gautier , "Histoire du romantisme", Charpentier, Paris, 1874.External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/boulanger_louis.html Louis Boulanger on Artcyclopedia]
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