Guillaume Courtois (French pronunciation: [ɡijom kuʁtwa]) or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679[1][2]) was a Franc-comtois-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.[3]
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rkdwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Simonetta Prosperi Valentini Rodinò, Courtois, Guillaume, in: Treccani, accessed 14 March 2015 (in Italian)
- ^ 'Self-portrait of Guillaume Courtois', called 'Le Bourguignon' Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine at Canesso