Clément Boulanger (1805-1842) Church Interior In Italy

Clément Boulanger (1805-1842) Interior of a church in Italy, c.1830, oil on panel, 32.5 x 23 cm, signed and annotated lower left. Beautiful original gilded frame, from the romantic period. Dimensions with frame 47 x 38 cm. Study for the painting on the same subject put on sale in Stockholm on May 26, 1999.

A student of Ingres, Clément Boulanger was a 2nd class medalist at the 1827 Salon with a Bather. A history painter, he sent paintings to the Salons of 1827, 1831, 1834, 1835, 1837 to 1840 and 1842. He received public orders, both for religious buildings and for the Versailles museum. In 1832 he married the painter Marie-Elisabeth Blavot, with whom he had a son born in Rome in 1830, Albert Boulanger-Cavé (1830-1910), who became theater supervisor at the Ministry of the Interior under the Second Empire. He executed, apart from the works designed for the Salon, a fairly large number of historical paintings and portraits. He also works as a fan painter. Clément Boulanger enjoyed a certain notoriety during his lifetime; he died in Turkey, where he was to make a painting representing the archaeological excavations of Magnesia (today Manisa) undertaken by Texier, as evidenced by the chapter devoted to him by Alexandre Dumas ( father) in his Memoirs, published between 1852 and 1856. He died on September 28, 1842 in Manisa.