Louis Boullogne

Louis Boullogne (French pronunciation: [lwi bulɔɲ]; August 1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter.

After spending some years in Italy, Boullogne set up in Paris and made a major contribution to the organisation of the Académie de peinture, where he was a professor until his death.

He was a talented copyist and many anecdotes exist about this, which are more-or-less true.

He painted Saint Simeón, St Paul's Miracle at Ephesus and The Beheading of St Paul as Mays for Notre Dame.

All four of his children (Bon, Louis, Geneviève and Madeleine) became painters.