Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Louis-Léopold Boilly

Scène de voleurs

Auction Closed

July 6, 10:38 AM GMT

Estimate

14,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Louis-Léopold Boilly

La Bassée 1761 - 1845 Paris

Scène de voleurs


Pen and black ink and brown wash and watercolour over pencil

251 by 329 mm

The artist,
thence by descent to his son, Baptiste-Marie-Simon Boilly,
thence by inheritance to his wife Mme Baptiste-Marie-Simon Boilly, by 1889,
thence by descent to Marthe-Caroline Pradiers-Boilly (1864-1953);
with Galerie Arnaud Charvet, Paris, by 2017;
with Nicolas Schwed, Paris, by 2018;
Private Collection
F.-G. Dumas, 'Notice,' in Catalogue illustré des Beaux-Arts, Exposition universelle de 1889, Paris 1889, p. 34;
C.-P. de Chennevières, 'Exposition rétrospective des dessins (1789-1889),' Exposition universelle de 1889, les Beaux-arts et les Arts décoratifs, l’art français rétrospectif au Trocadéro, Paris 1889, p. 124, reprinted in La Gazette des beaux-arts, August 1889, p. 126;
P. Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris 1913, p. 106;
E. Breton and P. Zuber, Boilly. Le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI a Louis-Philippe, Paris 2019, vol. II, p. 705, cat. no. 861 D, reproduced p. 706

Paris, Grand Palais, Exposition centennale de l’art français, 1889, no. 46
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