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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.

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