Louis-Léopold Boilly
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Louis-Léopold Boilly was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His lif
Self-portrait, c. 1805
An early (between 1804 and 1807) trompe-l'œil piece by Boilly, similar to his etymological Un trompe-l'œil of 1800
The Triumph of Marat, 1794
Fine art Connoisseurs, c. 1823–1828, lithograph with hand coloring
The Incroyables and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses, were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory. Whether as catharsis or in a need to recon
Louis-Léopold Boilly
…of Love, 1790 Le Doux Réveil, 1795 The Artist's Wife in His Studio (c.1795–99), Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 15/16 in. (40.6 x 32.9 cm), Clark Art Institute Incroyable parade, 1797 Meeting of Artists in Isabey's Studio, 1798 Portrait of François-Adrien Boieldieu, 1800 The Arrival of a Stagecoach in the Courtyard of…
Picture from Les Français sous la Révolution by Augustin Challamel & Wilhelm Ténint
Portrait of a Lady, in Neoclassical style, c. 1799
Cafe des Incroyables, 1797
Painting of the three glamorous and eyebrow-raising Parisian socialites, the merveilleuses Thérésa Tallien, Juliette Récamier and Joséphine de Beauharnais.