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Louis LÈopold Boilly, artist
French, 1761 - 1845
Portrait Studies, circa 1795
Black, white, and brown chalk on blue-green wove paper, faded to brown
40.6 x 46.9 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase, Georges de Batz Collection 1967.17.86

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Artist Biography: Portrait and genre painter whose work illustrated everyday life during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. Sensitive command of media, color, and composition. Boilly's only teacher was his father, Arnould Boilly, a wood-carver. Boilly came to Paris for the first time in 1785, and remained there permanently. He is said to have painted over 5000 portraits, besides other works.~~~PT ENG LITH; ; M-9

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