Nicolas Baullery, Bolleri or Bollery (c. 1560âÂÂ1630) was a French painter and illustrator.
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-ÃÂtienne de Toulouse
- Peasant dance ou Country Dance at Celleneuve, Montpellier, musée Fabre
Previously attributed to him
Bibliography
- Pierre Marcel, Jean Guiffrey, ë Une illustration du "Pas des armes de Sandricourt" par Jérôme ou Nicolas Bollery û, dans Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1907, t.37, p. 277-288.
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