Louis Boulanger: A Romantic Visionary Louis Boulanger (1806 – 1867) stands as a prominent figure in French Romantic painting, an artist whose dramatic canvases captured the spirit of his era and cemented his place within the artistic landscape of mid-century Paris. Born in Piedmont where his father, François-Louis Boulanger, Lieutenant colonel of the Napoleon Army met his mother, Marie-Magdeleine-Gertrude Archibbuggi., Boulanger’s for…