Brief Biography-Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger was from Paris. His uncle trained him when he was fourteen and later by Pierre-Jules Jollivet and Paul Delaroche. He went on to become a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, where the works of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres influenced him. Afterwards, he went to Italy, Greece, and North Africa, where he took subject inspiration and did most of his noted art. Finally, he studied at the École de Rome and received the Prix de Rome; he became a friend of the two-week younger Jean-Léon Gérome. In his older years, he taught at the Institut de France.