Louis-Léopold Boilly (French, 1761-1845)

Details

Louis-Léopold Boilly (French, 1761-1845)
A gentleman believed to be a member of the artist’s family, simulating a cameo
Oil on metal; 78 mm. diam., gilt-metal mount in a rectangular wood frame, the reverse with label inscribed ‘L. L. Boilly / Membre de la Famille de / l’artiste’

Literature

L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, II, p. 920 no. 130, illustrated III, pl. 73, fig. 129.

Exhibited

Vienna, Albertina, Meisterwerke der europäischen Miniaturmalerei von 1750 bis 1850, 1965, no. 34.
From 2005 to 2017 on loan to the museum of the Residenz, Munich, Portrait Miniatures Gallery, case I, no. 7.

Présenté par

Alasdair Young

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Descriptif du lot

The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Boilly by messieurs Etienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber. We are indebted to them for their assistance in the preparation of this catalogue entry.

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