Bon Boullogne Biography
Bon Boullogne (1649 - 1717) was the son and pupil of Louis Boullogne the Elder and the brother of Louis de Boullogne the Younger. He was a French painter, engraver, decorator and teacher.
From 1670 he trained in Rome at the French Academy, paid by Louis XIV.
He copied frescoes from important works, including those by Raphael in the Vatican Rooms, for the Gobelins Manufacture. In 1673 he moved to Northern Italy, in particular to Lombardy, where he studied the works of Correggio, Carracci, Guido Reni, Domenichino and Francesco Albani. In 1677 he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which his father was one of the fourteen founders, and in 1692 he was appointed professor there. He worked in Versailles under Charles Le Brun and at the Hôtel des Invalides. It is also thought that he collaborated with his father on the decoration of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre.
He mainly painted genre, allegorical, mythological, religious subjects, portraits and landscapes. His works reveal reminiscences of Rembrandt and the Bolognese School of painting. In general, the work of the Boullogne brothers and their students summarizes many European pictorial traditions.
Bon Boullogne had several students including Nicolas Bertin, Pierre-Jacques Cazes, Joseph Christophe, Alexis Grimou, Sébastien Leclerc II, Charles Parrocel, Jean Raoux, Jean-Baptiste Santerre, Louis Silvestre II and Robert Tournières
