Louis Leopold Boilly* (French, 1761-1845)

Details

Louis Leopold Boilly* (French, 1761-1845)

La promenade

signed 'L. Boilly' lower left--oil on canvas
21½ x 18 1/8in. (54.6 x 46cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Maitre Balbatre, Paris, March 15, 1812, no. 2 (for 200 Fr.)
Duc de Morny Collection; sale (après décès), Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif, 128 rue de l'Univeristé, Paris, May 31, 1865, no. 92 (as "La Promenade"), bought by Mr. Heine (for 7,700 Fr.)
Heine Collection
Prince Murat Collection; sale (après décès), Palais Galliéra, Paris, March 2, 1961, no. 139 (illustrated)
Murat family (1961-present)

Literature

P. Defer, Catalogue général des ventes publiques de tableaux et estampes, depuis 1737 à nos jours, Paris, 1865, p. 447 (listed as in the Collection of M. le duc de Morny)
H. Mireur, Dictionnaire de ventes d'art, Paris, 1911, vol. I, p. 268, (as "La Promenade")
H. Harrisse, Boilly, Paris, 1898 (mentioned under three different numbers: No. 303 - "L'Heureuse Famille", No. 426 - "Le Parc" and No. 509 - "Les Trois Soeurs")
A. Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly, Paris, 1931, p. 166 (under the title "Femmes et enfants dans un jardin")

Exhibited

Paris, Ecole Française Moderne, au profit des artistes, Bd. des Italiens à Paris, 1860
Paris, Musée Carnavalet, La Vie Parisienne au XVIIIe siècle, April 1928, no. 17, p. 10 (Lent by Prince Murat)
Foundation Foch, 1934 (?)

Lot Essay

Etienne Breton dates this painting between 1800-1810, and notes that Boilly used the same green chair in his Portrait of a Man in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Boilly in preparation by Etienne Breton and Pascal Zuber, and we are grateful to M. Breton for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.