Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger (1824-1888)
[Gustave Boulanger, Gustave Rodolphe Boulanger]

Pupil of:

Jollivet and Paul Delaroche

A very great man was lost to French art in the death, a few years ago, of Gustave Rodolphe Clarence Boulanger. He was born in Paris, in 1824, became at fourteen years of age a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and was a favorite pupil of Jollivet and Paul Delaroche. In 1849 he won the Prix de Rome, and travelled to Italy, where he remained, studying and painting, until 1856. Previous to going to Rome, he had spent some months in North Africa, making studies of local life, and after completing the term of his Government pension in Italy, he once more went to Algiers. These two sources of study practically influenced his whole artistic career. The "Summer Bath at Pompeii" was painted in 1876 and is esteemed one of his best pictures, upon his Italian motives. He was made a member of the Legion of Honor in 1865, and when he died was a Chevalier, or Officer, of the order.

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