Bon Boullogne (; bapt. February 22, 1649 – May 17, 1717) was a French painter.

Biography

Boullogne was born in

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, a son of the painter

Louis Boullogne Louis Boullogne (; August 1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter. Life After spending some years in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern ...

;Bon de Bollogne
in the

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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

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. Through his father, who presented a half-length figure of St John by Bon to

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, Contrôleur Général des Finances, he was sent to the Académie de France in Rome as a Pensionnaire du Roi. In this capacity, he made copies of famous works, in particular some frescoes by

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in the

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, intended for reproduction as

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s tapestries. The period he then spent in Lombardy helped to complete his training. He studied the work of

Antonio da Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Renaissance, who was responsible for so ...

and the

Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci ( , , ; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother Agostino Carracci, Agostino and cousin Ludovico Carracci, Ludovico (with whom the Ca ...

, as well as

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but al ...

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoe ...

and

Francesco Albani Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of Albanian descent who was active in Bologna (1591–1600; 1609; 1610; 1618–1622), Rome (1600–1609; 1610–1617; 1623–1625), ...

. Bon’s painting, especially the mythological work, shows great affinities with the work of the

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, which was also to be found in the royal collections. Also of influence to Bon was Nordic art, as demonstrated in his female portraits framed by plant like motifs, a device taken up by his pupil

Robert Tournières Robert Le Vrac de Tournières (17 June 1667 – 18 May 1752) was a French painter. After the Second World War, a street in the new Saint-Paul district of his home city of Caen was named ''rue Robert Tournières''.''Les 50.000 adresses du Calvado ...

. He died in Paris.

Paintings

* ''Tobias fighting his father'' (c 1705),

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* ''Jephtha's Daughter'',

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* ''Saint Nicolas ressucitant les enfants'',

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, Le Musée Ingres * ''Emigration des Tectosages'',

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* ''Zéphyr et Flore'',

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* ''Le Lavement de pieds'',

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; Musée des beaux-arts * ''Le Triomphe d'Amphitrite'',

, Musée Magnin * ''L'enlèvement de Proserpine'',

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* ''Pan et Syrinx'',

, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Lisieux * ''Deux anges portant des instruments de musique'',

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* ''Junon et Flore'',

, Musée national du château et des Trianons * ''Hercule combat les centaures'',

* ''La mort de Saint Ambroise'',

Students

Nicolas Bertin Nicolas Bertin (1667 in Paris – 1736) was a French painter. A student of Jean Jouvenet, Vernansal the elder and Louis Boullongne (1657–1733), Louis Boullongne, he won the in 1685 for ''"Construction of Noah's ark"''. He was admitted to the ...

Pierre-Jacques Cazes Pierre-Jacques Cazes (1676 – 25 June 1754) was a French painter who specialized in religious and mythological subjects. He also taught several other French artists including François Boucher and Jean Siméon Chardin, Jean-Siméon Chardin. ...

* Joseph Christophe * François Hutin *

Sébastien Leclerc Sébastien Leclerc or Le Clerc ( aptized26 September 1637— 25 October 1714) was a French artist from the Lorraine (duchy), Duchy of Lorraine. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings, and engravings of paintings; and worked m ...

Charles Parrocel Charles Parrocel (6 May 1688 – 24 May 1752) was a French Painting, painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings. Parrocel was born in Paris, and studied under his father, Joseph Parrocel, until his death. Parrocel th ...

Jean Raoux Jean Raoux (1677 – 10 February 1734), French painter, was born at Montpellier. After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter. His reputation had been previously established by the ac ...

Jean-Baptiste Santerre Jean-Baptiste Santerre (; 23 March 1651 – 21 November 1717) was a French painter and draughtsman of the Style Louis XIV, known for his history paintings, portraits, and portrait-like Genre painting, genre subjects. Considerably influenced by It ...

Louis de Silvestre Louis de Silvestre (23 June 1675 – 11 April 1760), also known as Louis de Silvestre the Younger, was a French portrait and history painter. He was court painter to Augustus II the Strong, King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Dres ...

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