Pierre Bouillon

French painter and engraver (1776–1831)

Pierre Bouillon
"L'Enfant et la Fortune" by Bouillon, 1801
Born	1776 Thiviers
Died	15 October 1831(1831-10-15) (aged 54–55) Paris
Education	École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Style	Painter and engraver
Awards	Prix de Rome

Pierre Bouillon (1776–1831) was a French painter and engraver. Born at Thiviers, he studied with the Académie-trained history painter Nicolas-André Monsiau.^[1] He was awarded the grand prize of the Institut de France in July 1797 for his painting The Death of Cato of Utica.^[2] He exhibited in the Salon in 1796, 1799, 1801, 1804, 1819, 1822, and 1824.^[3]

As drawing instructor at the Lycée Louis Le Grand in Paris, he was a teacher of Théodore Géricault and perhaps also Eugène Delacroix.^[3] He was employed extensively to make preparatory drawings for the engravings of Pierre Laurent's publication, Le Musée français; his drawing for Charles Clément Bervic's celebrated engraving^[4] of the sculpture of Laocoön is among the 27 examples attributed to him in this work. Pierre Bouillon was also responsible for a publication devoted exclusively to the classical sculpture of the Louvre Museum, consisting of plates which he drew and etched himself, Le Musée des antiques ..., issued in 3 large folio volumes, 1811–1827.

Gallery

Selected works by Pierre Bouillon

Journée du 20 juin 1792, 1796
The Death of Cato of Utica, 1797
Leonidas, in consideration of his daughter Cleonide, is content to banish his son-in-law Cleombiote, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne
Jesus Resurrecting the Son of the Widow of Naim, c. 1817
Amor and Psyche, between 1810 and 1821
Vénus du Capitole, between 1810 and 1821
Faune chasseur, between 1810 and 1821

References

^ Bryan, Michael (1886). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. London: George Bell. p. 167.
^ "Proceedings of the Late Quarterly Sitting of the National Institute of France". The Monthly Magazine, or British Register. 4: 283. 1798.
^ ^a ^b Grunchec, Philippe (1985). The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797–1863. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. p. 149ISBN 9780883970751.
^ Among the several examples of the engraving in the British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1842-0806-183 shows the lettering "dessiné par Bouillon."