LOUIS LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)
LOUIS LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)
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LOUIS LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)

Study of a reclining female nude

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LOUIS LÉOPOLD BOILLY (LA BASSÉE 1761-1845 PARIS)
Study of a reclining female nude
black chalk and stumping, heightened with white, on light brown paper
8 ¾ x 11 3⁄8 in. (22.4 x 30 cm)
Provenance
with Galerie de Bayser, Paris (Exposition de dessins de maîtres anciens et modernes, 1978, no. 4, ill.).
with Bob Haboldt, Paris and New York (Dessins anciens des écoles du Nord, françaises et italiannes, 1991, no. 3, ill.).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 12 January 1994, lot 202.
Literature
H. Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly. Peintre, dessinateur et lithographe. Sa vie et son œuvre (1761-1845), Paris, 1898, no. 1155.
E. Breton and P. Zuber, Louis-Leopold Boilly. Le Peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris, 2019, II, no. 331D, ill.

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Lot Essay

This recumbent mermaid is connected with a panel painting by Boilly in private collection in Paris (Breton, Zuber, op. cit., no. 330P, ill.). In the painting the naiad, seen facing in the opposite direction, emerges from the water.

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