Provenance
Ancienne liste civile, 1833, bought for 1,200FF
King Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orléans; his sale, Jan. 10, 1853, lot 11 (1,400 livres to Felix)
Anon. sale, Paris, April 8, 1861, lot 92 (held by M. Langlois)
Marquis de Hertford, by whom bequeathed to
Sir Richard Wallace, and by descent to
Lady Wallace with Jaques Seligmann, Paris, from whom purchased by the present owner around 1923
Literature
H. Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly, Peintre, Dessinateur et Lithographe, sa Vie et son Oeuvre 1761-1845, 1898, p. 129, no. 497
P. Marmottan, Le peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), 1913, p. 155
A. Alexandre, L'Exposition de Boilly, Hotel de Sagan, Renaissance, XIII, no. 7, July 1930, p. 199, illustrated
A. Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly, 1931, pp. 147-149, 153, 172, illustrated opposite p. 148
M.N. Benisovich, Une autobiographie du peintre Louis Boilly, Essays in Honor of Hans Tietze, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1958, p. 367
Catalogue of the exhibition, Boilly 1761-1845, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Oct. 23, 1988-Jan. 9, 1989 under no. 51, illustrated
J.S. Hallam, Genre Works of Louis-Léopold Boilly, Ph.D Dissertation, University of Washington, 1979, pp. 142-142, fig. 173
S.L. Siegfried, Spectacle and Display in Boilly's 'L'Entrée du Jardin Turc', Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1991, p. 14
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1833, no. 2944
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Cent chefs-d'oeuvre des écoles Françaises et etrangères, June, 1892, p. 5, no. 1, as 'La Porte Saint Martin' (lent by Lady Wallace)
Paris, MM. Jaques Seligmann et fils, Exposition Louis Boilly, May 31-June 22, 1930, no. 31, illustrated between pages 44 and 45
