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Madeleine de Boullogne, (1646-1710), was a baroque artist born and raised in a family of painters. Extremely pious, she remained unmarried and lived a semi-monastic life entirely dedicated to working and teaching. (…)
Despite getting progressively forgotten, she is still known for her documentation of the Abbey in Port-Royal des Champs, a series of fifteen gouaches on vellum where she depicted the nuns, their daily activities and the religious ceremonies in the abbey and that reflect her strict Augustinist and Jansenist beliefs. (…)
De Boullogne’s work for the Abbey was later used by another artist, the engraver Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels, as a model for the famous series of reproductive plates dedicated to the same subject.
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