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LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE, NEAR LILLE 1761-1845 PARIS)

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$ 150 000
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25.05.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 37 | LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE, NEAR LILLE 1761-1845 PARIS)
LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE, NEAR LILLE 1761-1845 PARIS)

Portrait of Madame Tallien, full-length, seated in a garden

signed 'L. Boilly' (lower right)

oil on panel

20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (52 x 42 cm.)





Provenance

Félix Doistau (1846-1936), Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 June 1909 (=1st day), lot 8, where acquired by,

Myran Garabet Eknayan (1892-1985), Paris; Lair-Dubreuil, 12 June 1931, lot 4 (probably unsold).

Anonymous sale; Ader, Paris, 13-14 December 1933, lot 67.

Private collection, Paris.

with Étiene Bréton, Saint-Honoré Art Consulting, 1996-1997, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

H. Harrisse, Louis Boilly. Peintre, dessinateur et lithographie (1761-1845), Paris, 1898, p. 157, no. 819.

P. Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, pp. 204, 233.

A. Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly, Paris, 1931, p. 103.

J. Robiquet, 'Boilly, peintre parisien', L'Illustration, December 1931, n.p., illustrated.

A. Yacob, 'Notices', in Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845), exhibition catalogue, Lille, 2011-2012, p. 167.

É. Breton and P. Zuber, Boilly, II, Paris, 2019, p. 581, no. 449P.



Exhibited

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue de la deuxième exposition de Portraits du siècle ouverte au profit de l'oeuvre, 1885, no. 6.

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Portraits de Femmes et d'Enfants, 30 April 1897, no. 13.

Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition universelle de 1900, Exposition rétrospective de la Ville de Paris,1900, no. 28.

Paris, Ancien hôtel de Sagan, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 31 May-22 June 1930, no. 69.

Lille, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845), 11 April 2011-2 June 2012, no. 105.
Artist:Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Painting
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