ID 945316
Lot 37 | LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE, NEAR LILLE 1761-1845 PARIS)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
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) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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