Pierre Boucle

(b ?Antwerp, c. 1610; d Paris, 1673). Flemish painter, active in France. He may have studied still-life painting with Frans Snyders in Flanders, but by 1629 he was in Paris, where he settled in the community of Flemish painters in the Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s district, which lay outside the jurisdiction of the Painters' Guild (Ma?trise). For some time he worked with the still-life painter Lubin Baugin in the studio of Simon Vouet, where they produced cartoons for tapestries (untraced). He probably also had contacts with the still-life painters Jacques Linard and Louise Moillon, with whose style his work has affinities. Boucle's work had a broad appeal

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