guillaume courtois or italianized as guglielmo cortese, called il borgognone or le bourguignon was a french-italian painter, draughtsman and etcher. he was mainly active in rome as a history and staffage painter and enjoyed high-level patronage. he was the brother of the painters jacques courtois (giacomo cortese) and jean-françois courtois. guillaume courtois was born in saint-hippolyte, doubs, in france as the son of the obscure pain…