Nicolas Baullery

Nicolas Baullery, Bolleri or Bollery[1] (c. 1560 - 1630) was a French painter and illustrator.[2]

L'abjuration d'Henri IV, le 25 juillet 1593, in Basilica of Saint-Denis

Life

He was from a Parisian family and his father Jérôme and nephew Jacques Blanchard were also painters - Blanchard served as an apprentice under Nicolas.

He worked on several churches in Paris (the Benedictine Blancs-Manteaux, the Third Order one of Picpus, the Chartreux) and produced 'petits Mays' for Notre-Dame de Paris. He also produced engravings on the theme of Henry IV of France's entry into Paris in 1594.

Works
  • Nativité, church at Chassey
  • Christ before Pilate, formerly in the church at Charly-sur-Marne, location now unknown (the church was destroyed in World War One and its contents were housed in civic buildings; the painting was sold by the town in 1981; on 15 October 2008, number 13 in the list of works dispersed from Guy and Christiane Aldecoa's collection was misidentified as the work)
  • Adoration of the Shepherds, église Saint Martin, Fontenay-Trésigny
  • Adoration of the Shepherds, cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toulouse
  • Peasant dance ou Country Dance at Celleneuve, Montpellier, musée Fabre

Previously attributed to him

Bibliography
  • (in French) Pierre Marcel, Jean Guiffrey, « Une illustration du "Pas des armes de Sandricourt" par Jérôme ou Nicolas Bollery », dans Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1907, t.37, p. 277-288.

References
  1. He used Baullery in his signature.
  2. (in French) Vladimir Nestorov, Nicolas Baullery (v.1560 - 1630). Enquête sur un peintre parisien à l'aube du Grand Siècle, mémoire de recherche sous la dir. d'Olivier Bonfait, Paris, École du Louvre, 2014.
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