Gustave Boulanger

(1824–1888) French painter (1824-1888)

Gustave Boulanger (France, 1824–1888) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Gustave Boulanger belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Gustave Boulanger was born in former 2nd arrondissement of Paris and died in rue Ballu. Gustave Boulanger trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included Paul Delaroche and Pierre-Jules Jollivet. Wikidata associates Gustave Boulanger with Orientalism. Gustave Boulanger became a member of Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Georges Rochegrosse, Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, Paul Émile Chabas, and Maurice Chabas.

The best-known works include ‘parc de la villa Borghèse à Rome’, ‘Porteur d'eau juif, souvenir du vieil Alger’, and ‘The Slave Market’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 13 works by Gustave Boulanger with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1888. Works by Gustave Boulanger are held by several collections, among them Musée de l'Histoire de France, Cleveland Museum of Art, Eremitaget, and Gothenburg Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, Vilhelm Melbye, Auguste Bonheur, Adolphe Monticelli, and Henri-Pierre Picou.

• Realism
• The Slave Market