Nicolas Baullery Explained

Nicolas Baullery
Death Date:	1630
Nationality:	French
Known For:	Painting

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

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 I 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

• Henry IV Renouncing Protestantism in the basilique Saint-Denis, undated, musée d'art et d'histoire de Meudon, inv. A. 1974-1-6. (formerly in the l'église Saint-Martin de Meudon).

Bibliography

• 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. 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.