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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Louis-Léopold Boilly
1761–1845 · French
- Born
- 1761 · La Bassée
- Died
- 1845 · Paris
79 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Louis-Léopold Boilly was a French painter and draftsman, known for popular portrait paintings and a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil, which describes a technique creating an optical illusion of three dimensions.
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Louis-Léopold Boilly (French: [lwi leɔpɔl(d) bwɑji] ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings 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.
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Registered works
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In museum collections
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Louis-Léopold Boilly
Selected from 79 works by Louis-Léopold Boilly in the Collect24 Registry.
Louis Léopold Boilly
Two Standing Figures (Study for A Game of Billiards), c. 1807
black chalk with gray and brown-black chalk, with stumping, framing lines in brown-black chalk
31.2 × 26.6 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-1102873
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Three Young Artists in a Studio, about 1820
Black chalk with white chalk heightening and stumping, on beige paper
29.8 × 36.5 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-199721
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Compositional Drawing for 'Entrance to the Jardin Turc', about 1810–1812
Brown ink and graphite
27.9 × 38.1 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-196030
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Entrance to the Jardin Turc, 1812
Oil on canvas
73.3 × 91.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-136162
Louis Léopold Boilly
Bust of Minerva, ca. 1798
Conté crayon, stumping, heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper
29.2 × 21.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-467973
Louis Léopold Boilly
The Comb Punch, 1822
Lithograph; printed in blue, brown, black, green, yellow, and blue inks
30.8 × 22.1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-451051
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Louis Léopold Boilly
Osages: peuplade sauvage de l'Amérique Septentrionale dans l’Etat de Missouri [Osages: Native Tribes of North America, in the State of Missouri], 1827
Lithograph
45.3 × 28.9 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-449421
Louis Léopold Boilly
The Grimaces, 1823
Lithograph
33.3 × 25.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-448232
Louis Léopold Boilly
The Rag Picker, 1822
Lithograph
33.3 × 25.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-445219
Louis Léopold Boilly
Group of Artists in Jean-Baptiste Isabey's Studio, ca. 1798
Conté crayon, stumping, heightened with white chalk
39 × 54.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-514496
Louis Léopold Boilly
The Bagpipers, 1826
Lithograph
31.4 × 22.2 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-447962
Louis Léopold Boilly
The Hurdy-Gurdy Player, 1822
Lithograph
33.8 × 25.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-447961
Museums and collections
Where works by Louis-Léopold Boilly are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
34 works
- Musée Carnavalet
Paris, France
20 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
4 works
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
4 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
3 works
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
3 works
- Musée Cognacq-Jay
Paris, France
3 works
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
2 works
- Hermitage Museum
Russia
1 work
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
United States
1 work
- National Gallery
United Kingdom
1 work
- Nationalmuseum
Sweden
1 work
- Petit Palais
Paris, France
1 work
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
1 work
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