Auguste Marie Boulard was a French painter He is described by critics as “the last of the romantics” .Auguste Marie Boulard became a student of Léon Cognietin 1841 for three years, before settling in 1843 in Antwerp, where he had family, resided in Groenplaats, executed marines there and fishing scenes and copies in churches and museums of Flemish masters, including Rubens and Antoine van Dyck. Returning to Parisand residing again in the Marais district, he frequented the sculptor Geoffroy-Dechaume, the painters Jean-François Millet, Eugène Delacroixand the poet Charles Baudelaire. He joined theÎle Saint-Louis group, living at 13,quai d’Anjou, and gave painting lessons, among others Louis Lemaire. Boulard began at theSalonin 1847 with a portrait and regularly sent genre scenes, still lifes, landscapes, seascapes, interior scenes and portraits until 1868; on this date, his address was at 16,quai d’Anjou. In 1856, he lived part of the year inChampagne-sur-Oisewhere he bought a small house-workshop, and met Jules Dupréwho became his true master ; this brought him into the L’Isle-Adam groupwhich brought together Charles-François Daubigny,Honoré Daumier,Théodore Rousseau and Camille Corot. Married, he had two sons who became artists: Auguste Laurent Boulard (known as the “son”, 1852-1927), painter and engraver, student of Félix Bracquemond and Émile-Alexandre Boulard (1863-1943), painter, student of his father. From 1865, he lived in Cayeuxand devoted himself to rustic scenes, representations of rural life and was also interested in fishermen and their interiors; Cayeux where he had settled with Dupré. In 1878 , he was part ofthe committee for the exhibition at Durand-Ruel dedicated to Honoré Daumier, of whom he was a friend. June 20, 1896, after 25 years of silence, Boulard decided to exhibit his works at Georges Petit, encouraged by a committee of friends and critics, including Arsène Alexandre, Léonce Bénédite, Georges d’Esparbès, Gustave Geffroy,Roger Marx and Adolphe Willette.