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(1) Louis Boullogne
(b Paris, 1609; d Paris, 1674). After taking his first lessons from a mediocre painter in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, he became a pupil of Blanchard and started to become known. He probably owed his early patronage to his father, who worked at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Indeed, a crucifix that Louis painted for one of the rooms in the Hôtel de Ville pleased the municipal magistrates so much that they decided to grant him an allowance to enable him to continue his studies in Italy. Boullogne made the journey with the landscape painter Henri Mauperché. In Rome he met Sébastien Bourdon, with whom he formed a close and lasting friendship.
Part of the Boullogne family
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