Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845)

Les Croyables au Perron

Details

Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845)
Les Croyables au Perron
black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolour, lower right corner made up
320 x 396 mm.

Engraved

In reverse by Salvadore Tresca, for Les Folies du Jour, 1796-8.

Lot Essay

The print was registered at the Bibliothèque Nationale on 13 Pluviôse an V (1 February 1797). Hand-coloured impressions of it are at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
The subject represents confidence tricksters fooling a young man by selling him some Mandats territorriaux and picking his pocket for good measure.

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