Antoine Bourlard

Paris street scene

Antoine Joseph Bourlard (born June 30, 1826 in Mons ; † August 24, 1899 ibid) was a Belgian painter of historical pictures , landscapes and genre scenes, as well as etchers and sculptors.

Bourlard was from 1838 to 1846 a student of Antoon Van Ysendyck (1801–1875) at the art school in Mons. From 1846 he studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Thomas Couture . He helped his master with the "Roman orgy" that couture exhibited in the 1847 salon. He stayed in Paris until 1851.

In 1854 he traveled to Rome , attracted by the Roman countryside. After his painting “La Rome enchaînée” (Rome chained in) in 1860, exhibited in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, which angered political circles, Bourlard moved away from Rome and found refuge in Anticoli Corrado until 1875 .

Back in Mons, he exhibited his most important Italian works in the Salon des Beaux-Arts in May 1876. He was appointed director of the Mons Art School in 1879. As an enthusiast of Italian art and culture, he was called "il signor Antonio".

literature

• Hyacinth Holland : Bourlard, Antoine Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 466 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Pole Stievenart: Il Fiammingo. Silhouette et paysage de la vie de Antoine Bourlard 1826–1899  : Maurice Lemertin, Bruxelles 1919
• Berko, Patrick; Berko, Viviane, Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875 ; Brussels: Laconti, 1981.
• L. Bénédite, G. Marius, De schilderkunst der XIXde eeuw , Amsterdam 1910, p. 285

Web links

Commons : Antoine Bourlard  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Antoine Bourlard. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Bourlard, Antoine Joseph in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (digitized version )