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Pierre Bouillon

Pierre Bouillon

French painter and engraver (1776–1831)

Pierre Bouillon (1776–1831) was a French painter and engraver. Born at Thiviers, he studied with the Académie-trained history painter Nicolas-André Monsiau.[1] He was awarded the grand prize of the Institut de France in July 1797 for his painting The Death of Cato of Utica.[2] He exhibited in the Salon in 1796, 1799, 1801, 1804, 1819, 1822, and 1824.[3]

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As drawing instructor at the Lycée Louis Le Grand in Paris, he was a teacher of Théodore Géricault and perhaps also Eugène Delacroix.[3] He was employed extensively to make preparatory drawings for the engravings of Pierre Laurent's publication, Le Musée français; his drawing for Charles Clément Bervic's celebrated engraving[4] of the sculpture of Laocoön is among the 27 examples attributed to him in this work. Pierre Bouillon was also responsible for a publication devoted exclusively to the classical sculpture of the Louvre Museum, consisting of plates which he drew and etched himself, Le Musée des antiques ..., issued in 3 large folio volumes, 1811–1827.

Selected works by Pierre Bouillon
  • Journée du 20 juin 1792, 1796
  • The Death of Cato of Utica, 1797
  • Leonidas, in consideration of his daughter Cleonide, is content to banish his son-in-law Cleombiote, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne
  • Jesus Resurrecting the Son of the Widow of Naim, c. 1817
  • Amor and Psyche, between 1810 and 1821
  • Vénus du Capitole, between 1810 and 1821
  • Faune chasseur, between 1810 and 1821

References

  1. [1]
    Bryan, Michael (1886). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. London: George Bell. p. 167.
  2. [2]
    "Proceedings of the Late Quarterly Sitting of the National Institute of France". The Monthly Magazine, or British Register. 4: 283. 1798.
  3. [3]
    Grunchec, Philippe (1985). The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797–1863. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. p. 149ISBN 9780883970751.
  4. [4]
    Among the several examples of the engraving in the British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1842-0806-183 shows the lettering "dessiné par Bouillon."
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