This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Caen. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
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Louis Boudan (16??–17??) was an artist who worked for François Roger de Gaignieres, a French genealogist, antiquary and collector who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Boudan carried out commissions for de Gaignières for over 30 years. Most of his work for de Gaignieres was done between 1695 and 1715 when he, de Gaignieres and the latter’s secretary, Barthelemy Remy, toured France to carry out a survey of historical monuments.
Boudan’s work makes up the bulk of the Recueil de Gaignieres, a collection of engravings gathered by de Gaignieres over the course of his life. It was donated to Louis XIV and most of the folio plates created for de Gaignières by Boudan are today held by the Bibliotheque nationale de France.
Almost all of his drawings are of the castles and churches to be found in France towards the end of the 17th and beginning 18th century. Many of the historical monuments he painted can still be seen today.
Click here to read Louis Boudan’s bio on Wikipedia.
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TODAY: The city envelops the castle today. The castle is surrounded by houses and buildings.
TODAY: The “Abbaye de la Saincte Trinite de Caen“, otherwise known as the “Abbaye aux Dames“, still exists today and houses the regional government of Normandy.
Les Monts d’Aunay
The village of Les Monts d’Aunay is located some 20 kms outside of Caen to the South/West of the city.
TODAY: The Abbey has been mostly destroyed during the French revolution, only a few walls remain.
Louis Boudan made drawings and paintings of the then historical monuments, mostly castles and churches/cathedrals/abbeys. Below is an non-exhaustive list of places he made his art (a link “⇠” to his artworks will appear here when published):
- Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
- Tournoel
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comte
- Montfaucon
- Brittany
- Hennebont
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Chinon
- Plessis-lez-Tours
- Rigny-Usse
- Grand Est
- Saint-Jean-de-Bonneval
- Hauts-de-France
- Normandy
- Bayeux (surrounding only)
- Balleroy-sur-Drome
- Caen (and surroundings ) ⇠
- Caudebec-en-Caux (and surroundings) ⇠
- Mesnil-Panneville ⇠
- Jumieges
- Etretat (surrounding only) ⇠
- Dieppe ⇠
- Eu
- Evreux
- Fecamp (surroundings)
- Forges-les-Eaux (and surroundings)
- Beaubec-la-Rosiere
- Rouen (and surroundings)
- Blainville-Crevon
- Charleval
- Ecouis
- Pont-de-l’Arche
- Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville
- Villers-Ecalles
- Saint-Sever-Calvados
- Vire
- Yvetot (and surroundings)
- Ouville L’Abbaye
- Bayeux (surrounding only)
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Bordeaux
- Dissay
- le Mirebalais
- Limoges
- Loudun
- Poitiers
- Saint Bonnet
- Pays de la Loire
- Beaupreau
- Mayenne
- Nantes
Artists featured here who painted in Caen (but not limited to) are (a link “⇠” will be placed next to an artist name when their works are published. A “*” means that the artist did NOT work in Caen itself, instead worked in nearby villages and towns):
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudan, Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Bourgeois, Constant ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Callow, William ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cameron, David Young ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Dauzats, Adrien ⇠
- 🇫🇷 de Jolimont, Theodore Basset ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Dolby, Edwin ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Dommersen, William ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gernez, Paul-Elie * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Guerard, Henri ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Hervier, Louis Adolphe ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Huet, Paul * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Isabey, Eugene ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Jongkind, Johan ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Lepine, Stanislas ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Lepoittevin, Eugene ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Letellier, Emile-Andre ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Loiseau, Gustave ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Montague, Alfred ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Poynter, Ambrose ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Prout, Samuel ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Roberts, David ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Rushout, Anne ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Schafer, Henry Thomas ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Stanfield, Clarkson George ⇠
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Thorigny, Felix ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Turner, Joseph Mallord William ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Valtat, Louis * ⇠
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