Gustave Boulanger

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger ( born April 25, 1824 in Paris, † September 22, 1888 ) was a French painter. His work belongs to the so-called salon painting and is partially attributable to the Orientalism.

Life and work

Boulanger was at the École des Beaux -Arts students of the painter Paul Delaroche and Pierre Jules Jollivet. At age 30, he undertook a nearly two-year study trip to and through Italy. In Rome he had a great success, he was able to continue after his return to Paris with his work at the Rubicon Caesar. Among his first works in France belonged Maestro Palestrina, The Arabs and the Kabyles, have gained great respect from the audience.

Many of the resulting during his study trip sketches were too preliminary for his works with antique motifs, such as for Lucretia, Lesbia and the Pompeian wreaths dealer. His subjects were similar to those of his fellow painter Jean -Léon Gérôme and enthusiastic Napoléon III. , The Boulanger then asked, his Parisian palace in " Pompeian style " to design. At the age of 62 years, the painter died in 1886 in Paris.

Student

• Maurice Bompard (1857-1936)
• Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854-1922)

Works (selection)

• Caesar at the Rubicon
• Maestro Palestrina ( 1857)
• The Arabs (1861 )
• The Kabyle (1863 )
• The horsemen of the Sahara ( 1864)
• Lucretia
• Lesbia
• The Pompeian wreaths dealer
• The Slave Market (before 1882)