Charles Pompée Le Boulanger de Boisfrémont (1773-1838)

• Was a French painter.
• The son of a councillor in the Parliament of Normandy, Boisfrémont had been attracted to the fine arts from his youth.

• His parents sending him, at the age of 14, in 1787, to the pages of the king's great stable.

• Louis XVI appointed him first page, he was on duty at the palace during the day of 10 August 1792, which saw the constitution of the insurrectionary commune in Paris, the storming of the Tuileries, the massacre of the Swiss Guards in Paris and the suspension of Louis XVI.

• He remained one of the last in the apartments after the massacre.

• In Paris he found David and the neo-classical school reigning supreme.

• In 1803, he exhibited the Death of Abel, the first painting he had ever made in his life, life-size, whose subject was.

• At the Salon of 1806, he exhibited the Reproaches of Hector, a painting that earned him a gold medal of 500 francs, a success that earned him envy.

• In 1814, he exhibited a large ceiling, the Education of Jupiter by the Nymphs of Mount Ida, for the Pavillon de Marsan, reserved for the children of France. 

• He had two children, a son, a pupil of the École Polytechnique, a and a daughter, gifted with aptitude for painting.

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