Louis Léopold Boilly

French, 1761–1845

The Child Playing with Make-Up, 1789–1793

the child playing with make-up by louis léopold boilly

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 57 x 46 cm. (22.4 x 18.1 in.)

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Galerie Eric Coatalem

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Size Notes: 57 x 46 cm
(22.4 x 18.1 in)
Provenance: ale of the painter Dufresne, Paris (Olivier), 20-21 December 1814, no. 4 (301 francs; according to a handwritten annotation in the catalogue, bought by Fontana); Anonymous sale, Paris (Oudart), 5 November 1877, no. 77; Sale of M. B. Narischkine, Paris (Chevallier & Pillet), 25 April 1883, no. 6 (5,000 francs; according to a handwritten annotation in the catalogue, bought by Laurent-Richard); Posthumous sale of M; Laurent-Richard, Paris (Chevallier), 28-29 May 1886, no. 2 (8,200 francs; according to a handwritten annotation in the catalogue, bought by Rutter); Albert Lehmann collection, 1897; Albert Lehmann sale, Paris (Lair-Dubreuil & Baud), 8 June 1925, no. 183 (220,000 francs; collection, bought by F. Meyer); Mme J. Meyer collection
Exhibitions: Paris, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 1897, no. 11
Literature: Exhibition catalogue - Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1897
Henry Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly. Peintre, dessinateur et lithographe. Sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1898, p. 101
Maurice Tourneux, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1898, p. 406
Paul Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, p. 33
Le Figaro artistique, 1925, p. 601
André Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly, 1931, p.38
John Stephen Hallam, The Genre Works of Louis-Léopold Boilly, University of Washington, 1979, p. 55
L. Susan Siegfried, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly. Modern Life in Napoleonic France, New Haven, 1995, pp. 168-169
Etienne Bréton and Pascal Züber, Boilly, Le Peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris, 2019

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