Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845)
1761-07-05La Bassée, France1845-01-04Paris, FranceFrance
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Louis-Léopold Boilly was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil ("trick the eye"), applied to the technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions, though the "unnamed" technique itself had existed in Greek and Roman times.
Date and place of birt: | 5 july 1761, La Bassée, France |
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Date and place of death: | 4 january 1845, Paris, France |
Nationality: | France |
Period of activity: | XVIII, XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Painter |
Genre: | Genre art, Portrait |
Art style: | Neoclassicism, Rococo |