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Louis-Léopold Boilly · 1822

Provenance

Ownership history

In the possession of Louis-Léopold Boilly; his sale, Paris, April 13–14, 1829, lot 4; sold to James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (died 1855), Paris [Harrisse 1898]; Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier Sale, Paris, March 21–April 4, 1865, lot 225; sold to Sauvage [see Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les XVIIIme et XIXme siècles, Paris, 1911-1912]. Comtesse de Gramont d’Aster (1855–1905), Paris by 1898 [according to Harrisse 1898]. Pierre Thomas, comte de Pange (1875–1946), Paris. Private collection in U.S.A. [New York 1982]; Wildenstein and Co., New York, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Salon, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans, exposés au Musée Royal des Arts, 1822, cat. 121.
New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Consulat–Empire–Restauration: Art In Early XIX Century France, April 21–May 28, 1982, pp. 74–75 (ill.), 87–88.
Ft. Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, November 4, 1995–January 12, 1996; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, February 4–April 28, 1996.
Minneapolis, Institute of Art, Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, June 8–September 7, 2003, cat. 87; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 7, 2003–January 4, 2004.
Lille, France, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Louis-Léopold Boilly, November 4, 2011- February 6, 2012. cat. 144.

Literature

L’Observateur et Arlequin aux Salons, n. d. [1822], p. 19.
E.–J. Delécluze, “Beaux–Arts: Exposition Salon de 1822 (9e article),” Le Moniteur universel 2, no. 162 (June 11, 1822), p. 824.
Arthur Dinaux, “Boilly,” in Archives Historiques et Littéraires du Nord de la France et du Midi de la Belgique 6 (Valenciennes, 1847), p. 203
Henry Harrisse, L.–L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe: Sa vie et son oeuvre, 1761–1845 (Paris, 1898), p. 84, no. 46; also cited pp. 39, 98.
Paul Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761–1845) (Paris, 1913), pp. 156–57.
Seymour de Ricci, Musée Cognacq-Jay (Paris, 1929), p. 12, under cat. 8.
E. Jonas, Collections léguées à la ville de Paris par Ernest Cognacq (Paris, 1930), p. 11, under cat. 8.
André Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly (Paris: Librarie Plon, 1931), p. 156.
André Vantoura and O. H. Gasnier, eds., Dessins français de Prud’hon à Daumier, Fribourg, 1966, n. p., cited under no. 11.
Heim Gallery, From Poussin to Puvis de Chavannes: A Loan Exhibition of French Drawings from the Collection of the Musée des Beaux Arts at Lille, exh. cat. (London, 1974), citied under no. 4.
Francis Russell, “Saleroom Discoveries,” Burlington Magazine 119, no. 887 (February 1977), p. 153 [author confuses the painting in the Musée Cognacq-Jay with the original version].
John Stephen Hallam, "The Genre Works of Louis-Leopold Boilly," Ph. D. diss., University of Washington, 1979 (Ann Arbor: Univeristy Microfilms, 1985), p.112.

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