An album of 35 leaves containing 60 caricatures mostly of members of the Institut de France in Paris, many drawn in pairs, and thirteen other celebrities drawn on smaller sheets of paper attached to the last leaves of the album

This group of caricatures represent contemporaries of Julien-Lopold Boilly. These are mostly painters, musicians, scientists and writers. Many were member of the Institut Royal, composed of five Acadmies: Acadmie Franaise, Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Acadmie des Sciences, Acadmie des Beaux-Arts and Acadmie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
The present drawings were probably executed in connection with the set of 190 plates of prints by Boilly of portraits of the members of the Institut: Iconographie de l'Institut Royal de France, Paris, 1820-23. In the following list, the names preceded by an asterisk signify that the sitters are also found in the set of prints. The date after each name indicates when Boilly made the prints. The drawings were probably made in the years 1819-22: one of the sitters, Abb Morrellet, page 6, died in 1819, but the print was made the following year.
The thirteen caricatures attached to the last leaves were probably added later.

The first number corresponds with the leaf number of the album, and when the drawing is reproduced, the number is followed by +

1 Horace Vernet (1789-1863), painter
*Jean-Thomas Thibault (1757-1826), landscape painter and architect, 1822
2 *L'Abb-Sicard (1742-1822), professor, 1820
*Henri Monton-Berton (1767-1844), violinist and leader of the
orchestra of the Paris Opra, 1822
3+ *Antoine Baron Gros (1771-1835), painter, 1820
*Pierre-Narcisse Baron Gurin (1774-1833), painter and director
of the Villa Medici, Rome, 1820
4+ *Carle Vernet (1758-1835), painter, no date
*Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (1745-1825), diplomat, artist and first director of the Louvre, 1820
5+ Les Frres Bohrer (dates unknown), musicians
6+ *L'Abb Morellet (1727-1819), writer, 1820 *Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), sculptor, no date
7 *Pierre-Marie-Franois-Louis Baour-Lormian (1770-1854), poet and playwright, 1820 Etienne-Joseph-Bernard Delrieu (1761-1836),
writer and playright
8 Pierre Cartelier (1757-1831), sculptor
Jean-Baptiste Stouf (1742-1826), sculptor
9 Jean-Pierre-Abel Rmusat (1788-1832) sinologist
*Franois-Joseph Gossec (1733-1829), composer, 1820
10 *Jean-Nol Hall (1754-1822), physician, 1821
*Comte de Cassini (1748-1845), astronomer, 1820
11 *Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremre de Quincy (1755-1849),
archaeologist, 1821
Pierre-Henri Valenciennes (1750-1819), painter
12+ *Pierre-Franois-Lonard Fontaine (1762-1853), architect,
1821
*Charles Percier (1764-1838), architect, 1821
13 *Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), physician, 1820
Unidentified sitter
14+ *Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (1767-1824), painter, 1822
Franois Baron Grard (1771-1837), painter
15 *Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827), cartographer, 1822
*Claude-Louis Comte Berthollet (1748-1822), chemist and
academician, 1820
16 *Louis-Jacques Baron Thenard (1777-1857), chemist, 1820
*Ren-Juste Hay (1743-1822), mineralogist, 1820
17 *Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836), botanist, 1820
*Andr Thouin (1747-1824), botanist, 1822
18 *Franois-Joseph Bosio (1768-1845), sculptor, 1821
*Charles Dupaty (1771-1825), sculptor, 1822
19 *Bernard-Germain-Etienne de La Ville Comte de Lacepde
(1756-1825), naturalist and writer, 1820
*Dsir Raoul-Rochette (1789-1854), archaeologist, 1821
20 *Louis-Nicolas-Philippe-Auguste Comte de Forbin (1777-1841),
painter and archaeologist, director of the Louvre, 1821
*Comte Choiseul-Daillecourt (1782-1854), writer, no date
21 Three unidentified sitters
22 Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1780-1846), soldier and
naturalist
Blaisot (?)
23+ *Baron Portal (1742-1832), physician, 1820
24+ *Georges Chrtien-Lopold-Dagobert Baron Cuvier (1769-1832),
naturalist and scientist, 1820
25 *Pierre-Alexandre Tardieu (1756-1844), painter, 1822
Romain Desse (1748-1828), lawyer and magistrate, lawyer of
Louis XVI in 1793
26 *Trophime-Grard Marquis de Lally-Tollendal (1751-1830),
politician, 1820
*Pierre-Marc-Gaston Duc de Levis (1746-1830), man of letters and
politician, 1822
27 Jacques-Franois-Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines (1769-1823),
painter
Jean-Louis Demarne (1744-1829), painter
28 *Franois-Guillaume Andrieux (1759-1833), poet and playwright,
1820
*Abel-Franois Villemain (1790-1870), writer and politician,
1822
29 Louis Hersent (1777-1860), painter, depicted with his composition Daphnis et Chlo of 1817
30 Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1834), cartographer
*Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Baron Fourier (1768-1830), cartographer,
1823
31 Antoine-Jean Saint Martin (dates unknown), orientalist
Casimir Delavigne (1793-1843), poet and playwright
32 Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787-1870), painter
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), painter
33 Douchain (dates unkown), architect (?)
Alexandre Soumet (1788-1845), poet
34 Etienne-Stphane Vignes (active 19th c.), painter
Guillaume Bodinier (1795-1872), painter
35 Charles-Philippe de Larivire (1798-1876), painter
Florent-Fidle-Constant Bourgeois (1767-1836), painter and
lithographer
36 Kouck (dates unknown)
Charles-Edouard Isabelle (1800-?), architect
37 Dupont-Watteau (1756-1821), painter
Joseph-Flix-Henri Auvray (1800-1833), painter
38 Lemoyne Saint Paul (1754-1873), sculptor
Jean-Claude Naigeon (1753-1832), painter