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BOULANGER, GUSTAVE (RODOLPHE
CLARENCE), born in Paris, April 25, 1824.
History painter,
pupil of Jollivet
and of Delaroche;
won the prix de
Rome in 1849; returned
from Italy
in 1856; has travelled
in Africa.
Medals: 2d class,
1857, 1859, 1863,
and 1878; L. of
Honour, 1865;
Member of Institute, 1882. Works: Ulysses
recognized by Eurycleia (1849); Cæsar at
the Rubicon; The Choassa, House of the
Tragic Poet in Pompeii, Maestro Palestrina
(1857); Arabian Herdsmen, Lucretia, Lesbia
(1859); Hercules at Feet of Omphale,
Copy of the Flute Player and the Wife of
Diomed (Prince Napoleon); An Arab (1861);
Cæsar at the Head of the Tenth Legion, Kabyles,
The Defeat (1863); Horsemen of the
Sahara (1864); Djeïd and Rahia, Portrait of
Hamdy-Bey (1865); Catharine I. with Mehemet
Baltadji, Woman selling Crowns in
Pompeii (1866); The Mamillare (1867); El
Hiasseub, Arabian Story-Teller, Street of
the Tombs in Pompeii (1869); 'Tis an Emir,
The Chaouches of the Hakem, Souvenir of
Old Blidah (1870); Waiting for their Lord
and Master (1872); The Search of the Aïd
Srir at Biskra (1873); Appian Way in Time
of Augustus (1874); The Gyneceum (1875);
Summer Bath at Pompeii, Roman Comedians
rehearsing their parts (1876); St. Sebastian
and the Emperor (1877); Repast in
House of Lucullus (1878); Slave with a Fan
(1882); Source of the Tiber (1883); Captive,
Woman of the Ouleid-Nahir (1884); Jewish
Water Carrier in Algiers, Mother of the
Gracchi (1885); Turkish Justice, Samuel
Hawk Collection, New York.—Larousse;
Müller, 70.
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BOULANGER, LOUIS, born at Vercelli, Piedmont, March 11, 1806, died at Dijon, March 5, 1867. Genre painter, pupil of Lethière and of Achille Devéria; one of the leading artists of the romantic school. Medals: 2d class, 1827; 1st class, 1835; L. of Honour, 1840; director of the School of Art in Dijon after 1860. He exhibited in most of the Salons from 1827 to 1866; has illustrated works of Victor Hugo and others. Works: Mazeppa (1827), Rouen Museum; Assassination of Louis of Orleans by the Duke of Burgundy (1833), Ministry of Public Works; Hymn of Judith (1833), Ministry of the Interior; Renard the Fox in the Gardens of Armida, Death and the Woodcutter, Spanish Mule-Drivers (1833); a series of brilliant water-colours representing scenes from Notre Dame de Paris, Beatrice Cenci, Lucretia Borgia, Othello, and King Lear (Salons of 1833 and 1834); Camacho's Wedding (1835); Triumph of Petrarch (1837); Three Women beloved by Poets (1840, Dante's Beatrice, Petrarch's Laura, Ariosto's Orsolina); Virgil's Shepherds, Women Bathing (1845); Hecuba's Grief (1858), Ministry of the Interior; Ugolino and his Sons (1858); King Lear and his Fool (1853); St. Jerome and the Roman Fugitives (1855); Gentlemen of the Sierra, Guitar-Player, Festival in the Castle of Lirias, Romeo buying the Poison (1857); Don Quixote and the Goatherd, Othello, Macbeth, The Message (1859); The Revery of Velléda, The Sunday Patrol (1861); Virgil's Georgics (1863); Holy Family (1865), bought by State; Fear Nothing, thou bearest Cæsar (1865); Concert in Picardy (1866).—Larousse; Kunst-Chronik, ii. 113; L'Art, i. 224; Portfolio (1875), 178.
BOULANGER, Mme. MARIE ELIZABETH
(née Blavot), born in Paris in 1810.
Genre painter; pupil in water-colour of C.
Roqueplan, and in oil of Louis Boulanger,
whom she married; after his death she married
F. Cavé, director of the Beaux Arts.
Medals: 3d class, 1836; 2d class, 1839.
Works: Child crying over its Goat, Jean
