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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)
Thirty-five expressive heads (Réunion de 35 têtes diverses)
Details
LOUIS-LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)
Thirty-five expressive heads (Réunion de 35 têtes diverses)
oil on canvas
16 3⁄8 x 21 ¾ in. (42.5 x 55.3 cm.)
Thirty-five expressive heads (Réunion de 35 têtes diverses)
oil on canvas
16 3⁄8 x 21 ¾ in. (42.5 x 55.3 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) The artist's sale; Bonnefons de Lavialle, Paris, 13 April 1829 (=1st day), lot 15, as 'Réunion de trent-cinq [sic] têtes d'expression caricature et de physionomie des plus variées. - Le rire, la tristesse, l'admiration, le dédain, l'ironie, et en général toute la mobilité du visage selon les caractères, la condition, l'âge et la conformation des individus. L 24 p h 20 s. B.' (320 francs to Hazard).
with Wheelock Whitney & Company, New York, 1986, where acquired by the present owner.
with Wheelock Whitney & Company, New York, 1986, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
(Possibly) H. Harrisse, L.L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe. Sa vie et son oeuvre (1761-1845), Paris, 1898, p. 133, no. 535.
J.S. Hallam, The Genre Works of Louis-Léopold Boilly, Seattle, 1979, p. 308.
S.L. Siegfried, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern life in Napoleonic France, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 121-2, fig. 101.
L.N. Peters, M.A. Oppenheimer, C. Lowrey and K. Lemmey, A Personal Gathering: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of William I. Koch, Wichita, 1996, no. 14.
C.F. Ives and E.E. Barker, Romanticism & the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection, New York and New Haven, 2000, p. 14.
S.L. Siegfried, 'Les Grimaces: La phase expérimentale de Boilly dans la dernière partie de sa vie', Boilly (1761-1845), exhibition catalogue, Lille, 2011, pp. 46-54, fig. Ill.1.
E. Bréton and P. Zuber, Boilly: Le peintre de la société Parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, I, Paris, 2019, pp. 134, 252; II, pp. 716-8, no. 897P.
J.S. Hallam, The Genre Works of Louis-Léopold Boilly, Seattle, 1979, p. 308.
S.L. Siegfried, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern life in Napoleonic France, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 121-2, fig. 101.
L.N. Peters, M.A. Oppenheimer, C. Lowrey and K. Lemmey, A Personal Gathering: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of William I. Koch, Wichita, 1996, no. 14.
C.F. Ives and E.E. Barker, Romanticism & the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection, New York and New Haven, 2000, p. 14.
S.L. Siegfried, 'Les Grimaces: La phase expérimentale de Boilly dans la dernière partie de sa vie', Boilly (1761-1845), exhibition catalogue, Lille, 2011, pp. 46-54, fig. Ill.1.
E. Bréton and P. Zuber, Boilly: Le peintre de la société Parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, I, Paris, 2019, pp. 134, 252; II, pp. 716-8, no. 897P.
Exhibited
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, 5 November 1995-28 April 1996, no. 35.
Brought to you by
Maja Markovic
Director, Head of Evening Sale