{{Short description|French painter and engraver (1776–1831)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Pierre Bouillon | image = Pierre Bouillon - L'Enfant et la Fortune.jpg | caption = "L'Enfant et la Fortune" by Bouillon, 1801 | birth_date = 1776 | birth_place = Thiviers, France | death_date = {{death date and age|1831|10|15|1776|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | style = Painter and engraver | education = École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | awards = Prix de Rome }}
'''Pierre Bouillon''' (1776 – 15 October 1831) was a French painter and engraver. Born in Thiviers, he studied with the Académie-trained history painter Nicolas-André Monsiau.<ref name="Bryan">{{cite book|last=Bryan|first=Michael|title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical|publisher=George Bell|location=London|year=1886|pages=167|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4GYCAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> He was awarded the grand prize of the Institut de France in July 1797 for his painting ''The Death of Cato of Utica''.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1798|title=Proceedings of the Late Quarterly Sitting of the National Institute of France|journal=The Monthly Magazine, or British Register|volume=4|pages=283|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYRAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> He exhibited in the Salon in 1796, 1799, 1801, 1804, 1819, 1822, and 1824.<ref name="Grunchec">Grunchec, Philippe (1985). ''The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797–1863''. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. p. 149{{ISBN|9780883970751}}.</ref>
As drawing instructor at the Lycée Louis Le Grand in Paris, he was a teacher of Théodore Géricault and perhaps also Eugène Delacroix.<ref name="Grunchec"/> He was employed extensively to make preparatory drawings for the engravings of Pierre Laurent's publication, ''Le Musée français''; his drawing for Charles Clément Bervic's celebrated engraving<ref>Among the several examples of the engraving in the British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1842-0806-183 shows the lettering "dessiné par Bouillon."</ref> of the sculpture of ''Laocoön'' is among the 27 examples attributed to him in this work. Pierre Bouillon was also responsible for a publication devoted exclusively to the classical sculpture of the Louvre Museum, consisting of plates which he drew and etched himself, ''Le Musée des antiques ...'', issued in 3 large folio volumes, 1811–1827.
==Gallery== {{Gallery | title = Selected works by Pierre Bouillon | align = | footer = | style = | state = | height = | width = | captionstyle = | File:Bouillon Vérité Journée du 20 juin 1792 Couleurs 1796.jpg | ''Journée du 20 juin 1792'', 1796 | File:Pierre Bouillon - La Mort de Caton d'Utique.jpg | ''The Death of Cato of Utica'', 1797 |File:Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne - Leonidas à la considération de sa fille Cleonide, se contente de bannir son gendre Cleombiote - Pierre Bouillon.jpg|''Leonidas, in consideration of his daughter Cleonide, is content to banish his son-in-law Cleombiote'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne | File:Pierre Bouillon - Jesus Resurrecting the Son of the Widow of Naim.jpg | ''Jesus Resurrecting the Son of the Widow of Naim'', c. 1817 | File:Pierre Bouillon - L'Amour et Psyche (Statues).png | ''Amor and Psyche'', between 1810 and 1821 | File:Pierre Bouillon - Venus du Capitole (Statues).png | ''Vénus du Capitole'', between 1810 and 1821 |File:Pierre Bouillon - Faune Chasseur (Reliefs).png|''Faune chasseur'', between 1810 and 1821 }}
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