Pierre Bouillon

Pierre Bouillon (1776 – 15 October 1831) was a French painter and engraver. Born in 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]

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

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

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