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Boullogne.

French family of painters. They worked mainly in and around Paris for the King, private patrons and religious establishments from the mid-17th century into the early 18th. (1) Louis Boullogne was the first important member of the family, and he taught both his sons (2) Bon Boullogne and (3) Louis de Boullogne and his daughters Geneviève Boullogne (b Paris, 22 Aug 1645; d Aix-en-Provence, 5 Aug 1708) and Madeleine Boullogne (b Paris, 24 July 1646; d Paris, 30 Jan 1710). His daughters, who had been accepted (reçu) as members of the Académie Royale (7 Dec 1659) as still-life painters, were sometimes characterized as ‘flower painters’, and they, like their brothers, worked at the château at Versailles. Geneviève married the sculptor Clérion.

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