Nicolas Baullery

Nicolas Baullery, Bolleri or Bollery (c. 1560 - 1630) was a French painter and illustrator.

Life
He was from a Parisian family and his father Jérôme and nephew Jacques Blanchard were also painters - Blanchard served as an apprentice under Nicolas.

He worked on several churches in Paris (the Benedictine Blancs-Manteaux, the Third Order one of Picpus, the Chartreux) and produced 'petits Mays' for Notre-Dame de Paris. He also produced engravings on the theme of Henry IV of France's entry into Paris in 1594.

Works

 * Nativité, church at Chassey
 * Christ before Pilate, formerly in the church at Charly-sur-Marne, location now unknown (the church was destroyed in World War I and its contents were housed in civic buildings; the painting was sold by the town in 1981; on 15 October 2008, number 13 in the list of works dispersed from Guy and Christiane Aldecoa's collection was misidentified as the work)
 * Adoration of the Shepherds, église Saint Martin, Fontenay-Trésigny
 * Adoration of the Shepherds, cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toulouse
 * Peasant dance ou Country Dance at Celleneuve, Montpellier, musée Fabre

Previously attributed to him

 * Henry IV Renouncing Protestantism in the basilique Saint-Denis, undated, musée d'art et d'histoire de Meudon, inv. A. 1974-1-6. (formerly in the l'église Saint-Martin de Meudon).