Louis-Léopold Boilly

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Louis-Léopold Boilly, self-portrait, around 1793

Louis-Léopold Boilly (born July 5, 1761 in La Bassée near Lille , Département Nord , † January 4, 1845 in Paris ) was a French painter and lithographer .

Life

Boilly was the son of the wood sculptor Arnould Boilly. After a stay in Douai he studied with the painter Dominique Doncre in Arras from 1779 . In 1785 he went to Paris, where he quickly achieved success as a painter of portraits and genre paintings. In 1791 he took part in the salon for the first time . His genre pictures are considered to be particularly lively and true to nature . His pictures of Parisian life are also of moral and historical value. Boilly was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor for his services .

His sons Jules (1796–1874) and Alphonse (1801–1867) were painters, his son Edouard Boilly (1799–1854) was a composer; his nephew Eugène was also a painter.

Works (selection)

  • The Triumph of Marat (1794) Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts
  • Réunion d'artistes dans l'atelier d'Isabey (Meeting of artists in Jean-Baptiste Isabey's studio ) (1798). Paris, Musee du Louvre RF 1290bis
  • L 'Arrivée d'une diligence dans la cour des Messageries (Arrival of a stagecoach in the post office) (1803), Paris, Musée du Louvre 2678
  • Billiards game (1807), St. Petersburg, Hermitage
  • L'entree du Jardin Turc (Entrance to the Jardin Turc in Paris) (1812), Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum 2010.11, formerly the James Fairfax Collection

  • Triumph of Marat, 1794

  • Meeting of artists in Isabey's studio, 1798

  • The arrival of the stagecoach, 1803

  • Billiards game, 1807

  • Entrance to the Jardin Turc, 1812

literature

  • Henri Harisse: L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur, et lithographe; sa vie et son oeuvre, 1761-1845. Etude suivie d'une description de treize cent soixante tableaux, portraits, dessins et lithographies de cet artiste . Société de propagation des livres d'art, Paris 1898 ( digitized ).
  • John S. Hallam: The genre works of Louis-Léopold Boilly . Dissertation, University of Washington, DC 1979.
  • John S. Hallam: The two manners of Louis-Léopold Boilly and French genre painting in transition . In: The art bulletin , 63 : 618-633 (1981), ISSN  0004-3079
  • Susan L. Siegfried: The artist as nomadic capitalist . In: Art History , Vol. 13 (1990), 516-541, ISSN  0141-6790 .
  • Susan L. Siegfried: The art of Louis-Léopold Boilly. Modern life in Napoleonic France . University Press, New Haven 1995, ISBN 0-300-06332-6 .
  • Bart Boon: Jan Anthony d'Averhoult door Louis-Léopold Boilly. The divorced eighth one ongewoon portrait . In: Oud-Holland , Vol. 111 (1997), pp. 253-263, ISSN  0030-672X
  • Annie Scottez-De Wambrechies, Florence Raymond (Eds.): Boilly (1761-1845) . Exposition Palais des Beaux-Arts et la Ville de Lille, November 4, 2011 - February 6, 2012. Chaudun, paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-35039-125-0 .

Web links

Commons : Louis-Léopold Boilly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Louis-Léopold Boilly on britannica.com (English) , accessed December 30, 2015
  2. ^ Page at the Louvre .
  3. ↑ page at the Louvre ; Pascal Zuber: Speaking of "L'arrivée de la diligence dans la cour des messageries" de Louis-Léopold Boilly . In: Antologia di belle arti NS Vol. 59/62 (2000), pp. 136-145.
  4. ↑ Page at the J. Paul Getty Museum ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.getty.edu
personal data
SURNAME Boilly, Louis-Léopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH La Bassée near Lille , North Department
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1845
Place of death Paris